Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Remarks by el-Sisi during a military conference (28 April 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC93fn9s3-c. <br class="br">2013
“My stepfather said that the amount of treachery in this world is enormous, and that the best we could do was one small noble thing.”
— Daniel Handler, book The Grim Grotto
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The Grim Grotto (2004)
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