Ban Ki-moon Quotes
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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It takes three to make a child.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
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As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
