Quote by Kofi Annan
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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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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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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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development. – Kofi Annan

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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. – John le Carre

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Theres something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. – Tim Burton

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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock

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