Carlos P. Romulo (Carlos Peña Rómulo) Quotes
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I've got to win every race.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.
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If you know even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution - the 'justice' of exchanging one damage for another.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.
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I find myself, by happy accident, writing 'Young Adult' fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
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Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
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Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
