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But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.

— 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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