"I will do everything in my power to……" — Ban Ki-moon
"I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history."
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165 Quotes by Ban Ki-moon
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Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take…
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African…
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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are…
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It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.
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I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until…
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Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties…
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Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our…
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit…
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You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity…
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Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot…
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Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero…
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus…
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on…
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great…
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and…
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and…
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!
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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire…
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If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are…
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This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as…
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us…
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
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Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
— Martin Fowler
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In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul…
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