Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 5420.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
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The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
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The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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