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Kofi Annan

Kofi Annan

Ghanaian diplomat

Lived from: 1938 - 2018

Category: Politics Country: FlagGhana

Born: 8 april 1938 Died: 18 august 2018

  • 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.
  • I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.
  • Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
  • We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
  • One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.
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  • Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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  • If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
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  • The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
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