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"Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding." (Attributed to Mara by his successor as President, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, 10 October 2005).

— Kamisese Mara

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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

"It was the work of opportunists, crooks, thugs for their own self-gain and interest."

"I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse."

(On his Catholic faith): "Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life."

The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996)

At that stage my heart ruled my head".

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