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- More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my…
- We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
- In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only…
- In some ways, the challenges are even more daunting than they were at the peak of the cold war. Not only do we continue to…
- Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
- As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are…
- For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
- Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized…
- The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up…
- I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument…
- You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only…
- Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty…
- We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
- The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge
- Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the…
- Both parties accept this vision. But we can reach it only if we move rapidly and in parallel on all fronts. The so-called 'sequential' approach…
- The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice. That foundation…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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