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704 Diplomat Quotes

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.

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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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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.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

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What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

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We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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Understanding is a two-way street.

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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

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The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

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The giving of love is an education in itself.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

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I think it is important to speak out.
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

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Change is a process which has to be managed.
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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