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Powerful people have no regrets.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
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You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
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There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
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I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.
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It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
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But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
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So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
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Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
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You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
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One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
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Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
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Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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