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Kofi Annan

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GERMAINE GREER The silence when they do not want to tell you the facts: Discrete Silence. The silence when they do ...
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NIZAR HAMDOON Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God...
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HENRY FORD Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS You are what you are, and what you are is not me!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I tell recruits, if you come to Colgate, you're going to be taught by outstanding faculty, not gradu...
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AL KAHN The edges of tumors are where growth occurs, and they tell radiologists whether what they see is a t...
BRADLEY LUCIER The edges of tumors are where growth occurs, and they tell radiologists whether what they see is a t...
BRADLEY J. LUCIER If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
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GREG THIELEMANN The mink is at
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HOWARD TAYLOR Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
HENRY FORD Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds an...
DALE CARNEGIE Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...
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DALE CARNEGIE Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, wher...
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SUNDAY ADELAJA They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this ...
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF Instead of so knowing Christ that they have Him in them saving them, they lie wasting themselves in ...
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DALE CARNEGIE If looks and physical beauty do not matter why is everyone so offended if you tell them they are not...
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MICHAEL HIBBARD People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their...
MEISTER ECKHART You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.
AMIT RAY I don't see anything that is going to stop them from that. If they were to say no to me, then they a...
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DANNY SULLIVAN It is not difficult, not if you have contacts in Russia with other militant groups. They are availab...
BIN LADEN People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going...
CHARLES MCCARRY When I was first given an approximate calculation of the amounts being paid to buy up this contract,...
JOHN HILL If we don't catch them, we shall kill them, ... These bandits are not able to permanently engage us ...
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C.S. LEWIS Now they are ready to hear it. If you tell them before they are ready, it goes in one ear and out th...
GAIL PETTY Then we are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work. If th...
GUSTAVO TORRES I have to ask if that is an appropriate question to be asked, ... There are things I will tell my pr...
ALAN KEYES Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
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AL FROST I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it;...
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ANTONIO DAMASIO Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or ...
RICHARD DE BURY Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad thin...
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DANNY SULLIVAN If you tell the people who are supposed to fund this that you're not going to fix their problems, yo...
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KOFI ANNAN The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the...
KOFI ANNAN We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments te...
KOFI ANNAN National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But...
KOFI ANNAN If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
KOFI ANNAN If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
KOFI ANNAN If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first dec...
KOFI ANNAN More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
KOFI ANNAN The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
KOFI ANNAN We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their childr...
KOFI ANNAN We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will...
KOFI ANNAN We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
KOFI ANNAN We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflec...
KOFI ANNAN In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
KOFI ANNAN To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where yo...
KOFI ANNAN In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more prof...
KOFI ANNAN Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones ...
KOFI ANNAN In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
KOFI ANNAN We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one ...
KOFI ANNAN Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of red...
KOFI ANNAN The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmo...
KOFI ANNAN All is not well. Science tells us that if we do not take the right action now, climate change will b...
KOFI ANNAN The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly c...
KOFI ANNAN Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from natio...
KOFI ANNAN Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with...
KOFI ANNAN These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning,
KOFI ANNAN Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current polit...
KOFI ANNAN More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
KOFI ANNAN Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
KOFI ANNAN We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflec...
KOFI ANNAN The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people ach...
KOFI ANNAN Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...
KOFI ANNAN Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they proba...
KOFI ANNAN There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers ...
KOFI ANNAN The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
KOFI ANNAN I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The...
KOFI ANNAN It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
KOFI ANNAN More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face ...
KOFI ANNAN Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their na...
KOFI ANNAN On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a proble...
KOFI ANNAN Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping ...
KOFI ANNAN If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch ...
KOFI ANNAN Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...
KOFI ANNAN When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the ...
KOFI ANNAN The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political sys...
KOFI ANNAN I have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime...
KOFI ANNAN extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation.
KOFI ANNAN They often lack simple and fundamental information that is crucial to their safety. As we know, in t...
KOFI ANNAN This is inexcusable. Weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger to us all, particularly in a wo...
KOFI ANNAN It is vital that we turn this situation around and ensure that developing countries receive the fina...
KOFI ANNAN We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that departm...
KOFI ANNAN to see if broader investigations can take place.
KOFI ANNAN There are now 11 women heads of state or government, in countries on every continent. And three coun...
KOFI ANNAN The balance must be redressed.
KOFI ANNAN We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and ...
KOFI ANNAN We can wait until everything is perfect but how much time will that take? One year, two years, three...
KOFI ANNAN I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that...
KOFI ANNAN The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happen...
KOFI ANNAN The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice...
KOFI ANNAN Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new mille...
KOFI ANNAN Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were...
KOFI ANNAN Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out...
KOFI ANNAN Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or m...
KOFI ANNAN If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
KOFI ANNAN I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to le...
KOFI ANNAN I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begi...
KOFI ANNAN We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ...
KOFI ANNAN a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.
KOFI ANNAN creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.
KOFI ANNAN Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basical...
KOFI ANNAN given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
KOFI ANNAN This initiative, which must lead to a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end of occupation in Gaza...
KOFI ANNAN It was normal for us to lend our support to candidates from (African) countries with links to France...
KOFI ANNAN We not only have no convincing evidence of these allegations; we have no evidence of any kind. We ha...
KOFI ANNAN There seem to be efforts coming from Lebanese territory to deliberately create instability along the...
KOFI ANNAN a serious lack of cohesion within the mission as well as a number of other shortcomings.
KOFI ANNAN There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humanki...
KOFI ANNAN Once human-to-human transmission has been established, we would have only a matter of weeks to lock ...
KOFI ANNAN I am in touch with several heads of state, ... We need money, police and troops. I hope not only Fra...
KOFI ANNAN I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance th...
KOFI ANNAN The states are too high to continue down a dangerous path of diplomatic brinkmanship,
KOFI ANNAN this last chance, and continues its defiance, the council will have to make another grim choice, bas...
KOFI ANNAN They either consider the flood gates are open and they can come with their own amendments or they sh...
KOFI ANNAN From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for...
KOFI ANNAN Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing th...
KOFI ANNAN and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bul...
KOFI ANNAN Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
KOFI ANNAN It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.
KOFI ANNAN exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building.
KOFI ANNAN I had hoped that some of those with the capacity would go to the assistance of those who are in ther...
KOFI ANNAN I am braced and we are all ready.
KOFI ANNAN unhappily, both were found and have been documented in great detail.
KOFI ANNAN What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the intern...
KOFI ANNAN The electoral process has not countered the sense of disadvantage felt by opposition political parti...
KOFI ANNAN It's been difficult, ... He's had to make compromises to move the process ahead. It was never going ...
KOFI ANNAN So far, donors have made firm commitments for only 12 percent, 37 million dollars, of the UN require...
KOFI ANNAN Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size...
KOFI ANNAN This summit must be a summit of solutions,
KOFI ANNAN so that we can get away from the idea that some, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, ...
KOFI ANNAN well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council.
KOFI ANNAN The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera...
KOFI ANNAN guilty of no wrongdoing.
KOFI ANNAN In terms of logistics, the difficult terrain makes this one of most challenging relief operations ev...
KOFI ANNAN to ensure an end to impunity.
KOFI ANNAN New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered ever...
KOFI ANNAN You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are p...
KOFI ANNAN No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that contin...
KOFI ANNAN The negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in light of the date of the summit, which...
KOFI ANNAN [French President Jacques Chirac said the bombings left him] stunned and saddened, ... perpetrators ...
KOFI ANNAN I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and lead...
KOFI ANNAN Tension and mistrust among the parties to the conflict continue, ... In addition, unruly members of ...
KOFI ANNAN Clearly there is a need to unlearn our collective prejudices, to promote a continuing dialogue among...
KOFI ANNAN We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to o...
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
KOFI ANNAN I am very grateful that the prime minister and the Cabinet decided not to stick to the deadline,
KOFI ANNAN I think we can rein in the situation,
KOFI ANNAN shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.
KOFI ANNAN There's been quite a lot of debate about the application of the Geneva Convention. ... Whether they ...
KOFI ANNAN There must be no more sticking heads in the sand. No more embarrassment and no more hiding behind a ...
KOFI ANNAN when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.
KOFI ANNAN No cause can justify such acts of terror,
KOFI ANNAN I don't think any institution can go through the scrutiny, the scrubbing we've gone through and come...
KOFI ANNAN I came to listen and explore ways and means of intensifying the diplomatic efforts and try to achiev...
KOFI ANNAN The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
KOFI ANNAN If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades...
KOFI ANNAN I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.
KOFI BUSIA Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemi...
KOFI BUSIA What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world ...
KOJO ANNAN I admire my father greatly.
KOJO ANNAN I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
KOJO ANNAN I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political a...
KOJO ANNAN My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many...
KOJO ANNAN I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I ca...
KOJO ANNAN At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the...
KOJO ANNAN I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
KOJO ANNAN In fact, I did not attend a single meeting at the United Nations.
KOJO ANNAN neither the time, the inclination, nor the financial ability to fight each and every article that ha...
KOJO ANNAN No purist talk here of letting the flavors speak for themselves, the English let them sing in concer...
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BENJAMIN KOFI QUANSAH The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to m...
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