Kofi Annan Quotes
Change is a process which has to be managed.
Kofi Annan
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
Yuri Milner
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Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
Floyd Skloot
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell
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It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.
Hans Frank
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In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce
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L'amante, per aver quel che desia,Senza guardar che Dio tutto ode e vede,Aviluppa promesse e giuramenti,Che tutti spargon poi per l'aria i venti.
Ludovico Ariosto
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin
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I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.
Eric Close
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The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
Bud Grant
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I don't quite recollect how many tumblers of whiskey toddy each man drank after supper; but this I know, that about one o'clock in the morning, the baillie's grown-up son became insensible while attempting the first verse of 'Willie brewed a peck o' maut'; and he having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany, it occurred to my uncle that it was almost time to think about going.
Charles Dickens
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In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
Marilyn Monroe
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In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
Rana el Kaliouby
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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
Barack Obama
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Change is a process which has to be managed.
Kofi Annan
