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You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us.
Sellapan Ramanathan
Hope
You
Progress
Opportunities
Will
Important
Own
Some
Slowly
Direction
Developing
Look
Because
Southeast
Southeast Asia
Just
China
Asia
Them
Us
Your
Certainly
Multinational
In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
Sellapan Ramanathan
United Nations
Changed
Entered
Maintained
Since
Voted
Same
Nations
China
Then
United
Position
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
Sheikh Hasina
War
Building
Liberation
Hunger
Dream
Spirit
Objective
Through
Bangladesh
Being
Golden
Fulfil
After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.
Sheikh Hasina
Education
Light
Made
Free
Meal
Thinking
Increase
Secondary
Liberation
Sector
Student
Retention
Primary
Also
Schools
Make
Providing
Up
Bangladesh
Graduation
Order
After
Public
Public Sector
Now
Level
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
Sheikh Hasina
Alone
Impossible
Responsibility
Community
Action
Address
Possible
Has-Been
Rising
Emission
Take
Global
Does
Issue
Been
Effect
Cumulative
Role
Bangladesh
Any
Which
Against
Urgently
Sea
Level
Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
Sheikh Hasina
Government
People
Police
Problems
Solving
Absolute
Indiscriminate
Firing
Instead
Suppress
Force
Trying
Barbarism
I believe in peace. Only peaceful co-existence can ensure peace.
Sheikh Hasina
Peace
Believe
Ensure
Only
Peaceful
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do you get by taking innocent lives? Islam is a religion of peace; you are maligning its name.
Sheikh Hasina
Religion
You
Peace
Innocent
Islam
Those
Taking
Name
Terror
Get
Want
Ask
Who
Lives
In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
Shimon Peres
Technology
Science
Natural
Creativity
Innovation
Science And Technology
National
Our
Resources
Minds
Through
Advantage
New
Learned
Greatest
Israel
Lacking
Frontiers
Transformed
Fields
Land
Natural Resources
Barren
Deserts
Flourishing
Appreciate
David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.
Shimon Peres
Work
Great
History
Man
Father
Prophet
Through
David
Mythic
He
Know
Also
Him
Real
Israel
Years
Real Man
Privilege
Human
Legs
Modern-Day
Figure
Who
Many
Founding
Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
Shimon Peres
Democracy
Impossible
Dictatorship
Made
Television
Unbearable
The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
Shimon Peres
History
Better
Nation
Whatever
Believe
Changed
Jews
Born
Greatest
Discontented
Exists
Contribution
Dissatisfaction
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
Shimon Peres
You
First
Think
About
Look
Alternatives
First Thing
Exist
The First Thing
Thing
Two
Third
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
Shimon Peres
Matter
Inflation
Percent
Give
Costs
Freeze
Salaries
Up
Asked
Workers
Imagine
Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.
Shimon Peres
Guns
Bullets
Ballots
Turn
Us
From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. A man may feel as old as his years yet as young as his dreams.
Shimon Peres
Dreams
Journey
Man
Youth
Destination
Old
Care
Entitled
Young
Dream
Dreaming
Obliged
Feel
Known
His
Years
May
Stages
While
Plan
Keep
Earliest
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Shimon Peres
Time
Me
Army
First
Before
Positions
Rank
Ranks
Remain
Joined
Taken
Put
Knew
Most
First Of All
Private
Offered
Refused
Anyway
Sensitive
Preferred
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
Shimon Peres
Good
History
Sports
Happy
School
Pool
Swimming
Think
Good Student
Student
Main
Over
Because
Were
Literature
Interest
Basically
Basketball
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
Shimon Peres
Learning
Defense
Ministry
Never
Knew
Learned
Always
Did
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
Shimon Peres
Finance
Day
People
Group
Minister
Argued
Had
Day And Night
Make
Were
Officials
Decisions
Worked
Who
Professors
Night
If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.
Shimon Peres
People
Saved
Finally
Those
Out
Fact
Sort
Am
Trusted
Very
Controversial
Tax
In Fact
Them
Taxing
Worked
Capitalists
Who
Things
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Shimon Peres
Me
Man
Problems
Made
Young
Our
Later
All Things
Some
About
He
Head
Knew
Were
Anything
Young Man
Ignorant
Navy
Hardly
Things
Basically
Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
Shimon Peres
Government
Trust
Organization
Three
Unions
Enough
Spending
Both
Feel
Soon
Industry
Learned
Talking
Now
Among
Two
Third
There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
Shimon Peres
Time
Old
First
Young
Our
Seven
Saw
Paper
Through
Occasion
First Time
Were
Years
Forest
Very
Eight
Where
Place
Businessmen
Jewish
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
Shimon Peres
Man
Word
Negative
Pressure
Thought
Parents
Judgment
Whatever
Nothing
Could
Never
Had
Whatsoever
Wanted
Them
Reasonable
When I look at the record of President Obama concerning the major issue security I think it's a highly satisfactory record from Israeli point of view.
Shimon Peres
Think
President
President Obama
Security
Obama
Record
Point
Point Of View
Highly
Major
Look
Concerning
Israeli
Issue
View
Satisfactory
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