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"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."

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

"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."

"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."

"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."

"If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?"

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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