We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.
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Related Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyfu... HANS BOS I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember... ALLY CONDIE It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When drugs itself are a treatment, what further treatment do you want. APURVA GAGLANI She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a no... ALICE MCDERMOTT I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People wer... SARAH DESSEN Coraline nunca había comprendido qué motivo había llevado a alguien a pintar un cuenco con frutas... NEIL GAIMAN That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON you weren't mine to begin with. IAIN S. THOMAS Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ... AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE He ran his knuckles over her cheek as their gazes met and held. So much. He had been given so much.<... VICTORIA LYNNE I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD This is the strangest life I have ever known. JIM MORRISON When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have. MOHAMED ELBARADEI I can't believe you kept it open this long. This thing should have been closed last weekend. GARY SODERSTROM Every girl’s journey is a book of unknowns
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Sometimes they rec... HARIKRISHNA PANIGRAHI When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... JOHN BOLTON I have been chasing this watch. There are so many open ends, and this is now a closed one. JAY WINUK They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a... JAMES HOWE If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more?? This and this?? DEYTH BANGER Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society, ... It is simply not sustainable. ROBERT ZOELLICK Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being pr... NAGUIB SAWIRIS This is the type of thing you would expect from a repressive regime, ... This is not the type of thi... DICK DURBIN The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly ... PATRICK CHAPPATTE Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH You know this girl. Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked ... SARAH DESSEN I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might... STEPHENIE MEYER Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre... HAYLEY WILLIAMS COMPLETELY. Utterly. Frozen. My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin... COLLEEN HOOVER You want to know my sweet?" I ask her. She nods. I kiss her on the forehead. "... COLLEEN HOOVER Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together? Dexter: ... SARAH DESSEN The power to feed properly every day for life is in the saying "Give us this day our daily bread", f... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO The saying "Give us this day our daily bread." simply means every day my beliefs must cater for my n... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The saying,give us this day our daily bread means,seek today's good for today only,any excess means ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The saying "Give us this day our daily bread",simply means,yesterday is gone,you can't bring it back... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Yes, yes I blocked porn but this didn't stopped me from the real desire to watch videos... Still som... DEYTH BANGER That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction WILLIAM BLAKE The way isn't a circle and never can't be a circle unless you repeat the same after the same. Is it ... DEYTH BANGER Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, ... SARAH DESSEN Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothi... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your pi... MAX LUCADO I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST These are tests. Situations like this give you a benchmark with how society is doing with respect to... RONALD WALTERS I think it's a step forward. It's not the kind of progress that we would like to have; something dra... LORENZO MEYER This time this regime should change. This guy in Damascus (Assad) is sick. If he stays, we won't hav... WALID JUMBLATT I honestly can't believe that you kept it open this long. It should have been closed down last weeke... GARY SODERSTROM Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL I like my stomach, but it's really annoying because apparently, now, you're not allowed to show your... KEIRA KNIGHTLEY It's [beauty] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little br... CAMERON DIAZ God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about! SUNDAY ADELAJA Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l... DEYTH BANGER No matter how hard they seemed to have closed the door, somebody higher up can say you should have l... FRAN CALVERASE This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it. IAIN THOMAS The bottom line of the paper is that when you have people with shared standards, and some who have t... BETTINA ROCKENBACH The key is you can't have this kind of growth unless you have young people coming into the state. DON WEHBEY I turn to head outside when the boys make their way back into the house. Kel stops in the doorway an... COLLEEN HOOVER [It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was l... FRANCINE PROSE Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in... HERMAN MELVILLE So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way... LADY GAGA If i'm louder would you see me? NIALL HORAN Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just some... SARAH DESSEN This is temporary. Remember that it's not that long ago we were up at 6 percent. You have got an Asi... TIM O'NEILL Clearly, an open mind is a necessity when dealing with randomness. Popper believed that any idea of ... NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Nathan "N.R." Gaddis did not say :: 2109 fellow Goodreaders [can’t be wrong] gave [K... NATHAN "N.R." GADDIS Before you start talking or writing, be clear about the message you want to deliver to your audience... SOTONYE ANGA If you leave the face closed, it acts like any phone. Open it and you have a high-resolution desktop... ANDREW SUKAWATY Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've... 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the record is very clear. JACK SPADARO There is no longer any meaning to principles and ideology. You can buy anyone. This is not the lesso... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU You hold substance in my psyche SARAHBETH PURCELL We will continue consultations with friends and allies in light of this latest move from the North K... LOU FINTOR He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Tea?” Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper. “Please. Or anything that is hot.” She pu... JULIA QUINN Finally, he reached his street. It was quiet, blessedly so, and the only sound was his own groan as ... JULIA QUINN His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?”<... JULIA QUINN Then, with a cheeky quirk of his brows, he leaned forward and murmured, “Would it be improper of m... JULIA QUINN Daniel chuckled. Whoever that poor girl was, he hoped his family was paying her well. And then,... JULIA QUINN Have you seen Frances?” He tilted his head to the right. “I believe she’s off rooti... JULIA QUINN He said he loved me,” she whispered. Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensati... JULIA QUINN This kind of technology is such a fundamental part of the Internet that to try to have a blanket ban... ERIC SCHEIRER
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NADIA ALI I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebano... NADIA ALI As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am. NADIA ALI I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. NADIA ALI I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights b... NADIA ALI Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me... NADIA ALI I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand ou... NADIA ALI Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance... NADIA ALI How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white fo... ALI SMITH Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, ... ALI SMITH We form bonds. It's a very female bonding kind of dance. AISHA ALI It's normal to move the pelvis. It's not meant to be lascivious. It's meant to be a form of everyday... AISHA ALI