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     Volume 4 Issue 1 | June 25, 2004 | 8th Anniversary Issue


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   Nothing if Not     Serious
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   Retrospection
   A Roman Column
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Voicebox

Here are a crop of quotes that we consider to be the best that appeared in the voicebox

“We will get to know the dances that has taken place in the world, yet we will not give up our originality.”
KHALEDA ZIA
prime minister
to a baffled crowd at the inauguration of 11th Asian Art Exhibition.

“From now onwards if anyone writes anything bad about the BNP I will skin him alive.”
ANISUR RAHMAN COCO
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader.

“A three-year old baby does not need warm clothes; mother's warmth is enough.”
ABDUL BARI KHAN
District Commissioner of Nilphamari
while distributing warm clothes among the poor.

“It is the most difficult decision I have made in my entire life, except the one I made in 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax.”
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
Actor turned politician
on his decision to announce his candidacy for the governor of California.

“Free people are free to do mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.”
DONALD RUMSFELD
on the looting that followed after the fall of Baghdad.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS.
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <[email protected]>

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