Kofi Annan Quotes
Change is a process which has to be managed.
Kofi Annan
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
Queen Latifah
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
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I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
T. D. Jakes
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I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
Natalie Portman
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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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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Saville
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Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew of Christ, he found the Gospel according to Matthew, which had anticipated his own arrival. For Bartholomew, one of the apostles, had preached to them, and left with them the writing of Matthew in the Hebrew language, which they had preserved till that time. After many good deeds, Pantaenus finally became the head of the school at Alexandria, and expounded the treasures of divine doctrine both orally and in writing.
Elton Welsby
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There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
Bhagat Singh
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When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.
Angus Deaton
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Change is a process which has to be managed.
Kofi Annan
