"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."

Education, Power, Development, Democracy

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"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."

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"If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom."

Freedom, Liberty

"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."

Equality, Development, Goal, Building

"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."

Want,

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

Nation, Country, Justice, Principles, Sight

"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."

People, Values, Benefits, Globalization

"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."

Opportunity, Iraq, Security

"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."

Man, Men, Society, Women, Strategy

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

Problems, Will

"We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better."

Hope,

"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."

Mark Twain, American Author

Education, Read

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."

Robert Frost, American Poet

Education, Tears, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

Education, Science, Fantasy, First, Open

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Education, Reading, Writing

"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."

Octavia Butler, American Writer

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"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."

Louis L'Amour, American Author

Education, History, Time, Biography, Fiction

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate."

Jack London, American Novelist

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"O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

Education, Life, Existence, Harmony