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"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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"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?"

"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
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