"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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"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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"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."

Leadership, People, Opportunity, End

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

Freedom, Liberty

"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."

Friendship, History, Destiny, Friends, Nations

"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

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"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Nature, Sky

"At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

William Wordsworth, English Poet

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"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

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"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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