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"It made her angry."
SHAHJAHAN KHAN
a former Awami League lawmaker about Sheikh Hasina, who, Khan says, has tried to talk with some Advisers about the arrests of some Awami League leaders. According to Khan, the Advisers “failed to answer her questions”.
According to some detained Awami League leaders, Hasina regularly took money from different businessmen (some of them include murderers and land-grabbers), which she later distributed among her party colleagues. Hasina however denies it by saying the businessmen have been her well-wishers. It is not clear though why she would need well wishers who are also indulged in thuggery and murder.

"If by perseverance, the snail could reach the Ark, why can't these worthy ladies stand on and turn the scale."
REKHA SHARMA
Judge of Delhi High Court
in a rule against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the Indian national airline for being overweight.
"I do not understand how it is any way unfair, unreasonable and insulting to their womanhood if they are asked to control their growth," Sharma has continued.

"The logical conclusion from the environmental, fossil, and experimental evidence is that upright, straight-legged walking originally evolved as an adaptation to tree-dwelling."
ROBIN CROMPTON
professor, the University of Liverpool
about why Orangutans began walking upright while they were still living in trees - not out on open land.
"Both access to fruits and crossing gaps in the trees would require an ability to navigate very thin, terminal tree branches which are liable to bend under body mass," she says.

"I urge all for launching a new political platform uniting parties and politicians who have a clean image."
KAMAL HOSSAIN
Gana Forum president and Jatiya Oikya Mancha convenor.

"I am completely well. Thank you all for coming here. Pray for me. "
FAKHRUDDIN AHMED
head of the interim government
to waiting newsmen of print and electronic media before leaving the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.
Ahmed fainted while giving his speech in Tangail.
Ahmed's government has launched a widely popular crackdown on corruption.

Quotations Are Taken From Different Local And International Newspapers.
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN

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