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704 Diplomat Quotes

Extreme inequality is no temporary blip. It is hard-wired into our economies.

Economies Extreme Inequality Temporary
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Our economic system has enabled companies and individuals to use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth while the benefits for the poorest in society have shrunk.

Benefits Capture Share Retain
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By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

Spent Revenue Share Avoid
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When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

About Talk Careful Giving
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Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.

Cutting Down Forest Loss
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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Act Continue Crisis Future
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Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.

Abuse Africa Community Global
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The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

Shifted Power Economic World
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Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

Callous Conflict Drive Famine
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Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Behind Being Billions Economic
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Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Challenges Global Growth Inclusive
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Far too many governments are cutting back on their investment in human development.

Back Cutting Development Far
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Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

Hatred Lies Borders Closed
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Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

Because Between Blocks Building
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That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

Believe Civil Good Country
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The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.

Africa Cannot Importance Inequality
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Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.

African Big Economic Elite
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Between Born Forests Grew
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Forgetting Long Love Short
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I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.

Cherry Does Spring Trees
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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
Cannot Coming Cut Flowers
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.

Born Bullets Crime Day
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

Between Cities Joined Night
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Bread Flour Goes Making
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Child Does Forever He
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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Someday Somewhere Anywhere Find
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Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow.
Don't Deeply Love Make
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A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

Body Mature Romantic Tragedy
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If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.
Heart Madness Want Kill
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The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

Disease Dangerous Heart Most
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Before you came, the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Before Born Came Prose
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
About Because Still Writing
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Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Abandon Days Addicted Things
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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Because Beyond Decided Love
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Some are like the Moon, good looking, but only when they're away from you.
Away Good Like Moon
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Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.

Don't Flaws Lose Love
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In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

Sea Shore Summer Felt
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Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

After Doesn't Differently Goes
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There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

Anymore Smile Forget Name
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And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.

Fear Place Taken Some
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Kill him, then hug him. Men are more faithful when dead.

Dead Him Hug Kill
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And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

Country Seemed Same See
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What we feel is beyond words. We should be ashamed of our poems.
Ashamed Beyond Feel Poems
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Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

Love Woman Taught Grieve
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Never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

Believe Change Created Woman
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
Important Lantern Light More
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You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
Create beauty Excite Sustenance Soul
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Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Love Stammers Stutters Best
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Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

My belly Noble Heart
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