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"He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question."
Family

"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
Leadership

"Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs."
Business

"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline."
Family

"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
Money

"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."
Military

"If the constitution goes, I go."
Constitution

"The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy."
Family

"I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then."
Government

"Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again."
Trust
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development

"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development

"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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Personal Development

"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development

"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
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Personal Development

"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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Personal Development

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
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Personal Development

"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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Personal Development

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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Personal Development

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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Personal Development
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