Javier Solana Quotes
The United Nations should continue to be the center of gravity in the post-conflict period.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
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A woman is more than the sum of her parts.
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To have people to the White House and worry about the price of things is laughable.
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Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
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Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.
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My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'
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I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
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When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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He was strong. And his heart, it was breaking.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
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The United Nations should continue to be the center of gravity in the post-conflict period.
