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The United Nations is a reflection of the world, ... We can only get as far as member states are prepared to go.


Jean Ping

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JOYCE MEYER Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
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TROY BROWN That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH