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If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
Kofi Annan
People
World
Will
Build
Young
Energy
Think
Innovations
Destroy
Jobs
Clean
Clean Energy
Take
New
Come
Economy
New Jobs
Up
Train
Dependent
Happen
Young People
Capacity
Switch
The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.
Lee Kuan Yew
Change
People
World
First
Difficult
Citizens
More
Habits
Spitting
Part
Over
Like
First World
Behaved
Getting
Place
Third
Third World
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Own
Those
Punished
Remorse
Subject
Person
Whip
Themselves
Who
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reality
Apprehension
More
Than
Often
Us
Suffer
Alarm
Things
Harm
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Great
Genius
Madness
Great Genius
Some
Touch
Without
Existed
Ever
A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
Madeleine Albright
Time
Game
Together
People
Sit
Strategy
International Relations
Think
Thinking
Relations
Out
More
Taking
Between
Like
Chess
Balls
Lot
Bunch
Quietly
Where
Moves
Billiards
International
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
Madeleine Albright
You
Leader
Ability
New
Understand
New Information
Different
Information
Might
View
Different View
Assimilate
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Blessing
Age
Old
Old Age
Harvest
Secured
Recollection
Abundance
What is permissible is not always honorable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honorable
Always
Permissible
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom
Fight
Communism
Active
Correspond
Would
Objects
Colonial
Long-Term
Countries
Because
Always
Role
Movements
Short-Term
Communists
Played
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela
Politics
States
Having
Observers
America
Africa
Want
Asia
Ask
Elections
United
United States
United States Of America
Britain
There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.
Nelson Mandela
Women
Men
Men And Women
Society
Enormous
Positions
Distinctive
Has-Been
Development
Towards
Been
Contribution
Hold
Who
Many
Whose
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela
Love
Peace
Laughter
AIDS
Give
Child
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
Robert Jackson
Patriotism
Will
Free
Believe
Our
Minds
Voluntary
Institutions
Make
Patriotic
Estimate
Ceremonies
Appeal
Flourish
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
Robert Menzies
Truth
Joy
Enemy
Simple
Sometimes
Bitterness
High
Hopes
Retrospective
Greatest
Cultivation
Forgotten
Present
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
Robert Mugabe
Welcome
People
Equality
Country
White
Extraction
Those
Rightful
Ours
Must
Given
Taken
Happen
Land
Farming
Who
European
Basis
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
Robert Mugabe
Day
Age
Other
Day And Age
Protest
Continue
Than
Human
Africa
Human Beings
Races
Should
Lesser
Beings
Treated
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
Robert Mugabe
Change
World
Our
About
Taken
Developing
Developing World
Countries
Call
Affairs
Domestic
Decide
Regime
Themselves
Us
Interfere
Even
Bring
Britain
Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
Rodrigo Duterte
Work
Rights
Dignity
Human Rights
Must
Uplift
Human
Human Dignity
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Sitting Bull
Broken
Man
Red
Whites
Kept
Treaty
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull
Crows
Eagles
Necessary
NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.
Vladimir Putin
Time
Day
NATO
Once
Threat
Russia
Point
Counteract
Countries
New
Democratic
Because
Built
Coming
Soviet
Soviet Union
Where
Anymore
Them
Union
Now
Among
Number
The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.
Vladimir Putin
Try
Focus
Power
Politician
Every
Worst
Worst Thing
Possible
Only
Cling
Means
Thing
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill
Remarks
Impromptu
Just
Preparing
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
You
Man
Nothing
Costs
Polite
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
War
You
Man
Prisoner
Tries
Fails
Him
Ask
Then
Who
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