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- The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact…
- The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick,…
- A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.
- 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…
- This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to…
- There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the benefits…
- You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
- Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face…
- Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong