Miroslav Lajcak Quotes
The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
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I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
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Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
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I believe it to be one of the most important discipleship resources we have produced at Ligonier.
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We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
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Indeed there are many competent people who are plagued by a sense of inefficacy, and many less competent ones who remain unperturbed by impending threats because they are self-assured of their coping capabilities.
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[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.
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My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.
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Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
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His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
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I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.
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Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also raise the minimum wage - a big deal for the nearly two-thirds of minimum-wageworkers who are women. And we'll give women the tools they need to fight for equal pay. This isn't just a "women's issue"Ń‚ - it's an issue every American should care about, no matter their gender.
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The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness.
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The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.
