Javier Perez de Cuellar Quotes
The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
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If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.
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There is no reason why someone who is in doubt about the existence of God should not pray for help and guidance on this topic as in other matters. Some find something comic in the idea of an agnostic praying to a God whose existence he doubts. It is surely no more unreasonable than the act of a man adrift in the ocean, trapped if a cave, or stranded on a mountainside, who cries for help though he may never be heard or fires a signal which may never be seen.
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Times change, and we change with them.
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The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.
