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Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable…
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The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are…
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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,…
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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 all of…
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Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create…
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Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to…
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural…
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You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen…
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Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed…
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Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and…
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no…
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes…
— George Herbert
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Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is…
— James Van Allen
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The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed,…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is…
— Hans Selye
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Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
— Alexander John Ellis
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I am only me for practical purposes.
— Julian Baggini
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You create your response to reality, and that response, for all practical purposes, is your reality.
— Richard Rohr
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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above…
— Janis Karpinski
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The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be…
— Charles Babbage
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... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any…
— Rene Descartes
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One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life…
— Mike Judge
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