Quote by Kofi Annan
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations w

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. – Kofi Annan

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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations. – Kofi Annan

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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. – Kofi Annan

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Future
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. – Kofi Annan

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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. – Elbert Hubbard

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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It wont be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isnt mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. Its a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question. – Stephen Harper

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Religion

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America. – Gary Locke

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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Whats cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesnt. I like that elusiveness. – Andrew Bird

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cool

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color. – Author unknown