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Simply naming objectives isn't sufficient for a vision. If I say that I'm going to build a large palace, but I don't have any money to do so, then that is not a vision - it's an illusion.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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