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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. – Kofi Annan

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. – Kofi Annan

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I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. – Kofi Annan

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Leadership
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. – Johan Huizinga, Men and Ideas

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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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I dont have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I dont have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas. – Emmitt Smith

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