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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
John Lubbock
Best
Peace
Result
Wait
Our
Done
Should
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
John Selden
Wise
Communication
People
Dangerous
Nothing
Say
People Say
Wise People
Times
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Jose Mujica
You
Solitude
Living
Becomes
Lot
Any
Companion
Thing
Living Thing
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
Jose Mujica
Good
Good And Evil
Words
World
Evil
Black
Black And White
White
Down
Thinking
Other
More
Dividing
Outside
Box
Am
Left
Up
Cured
Than
Want
In Other Words
Capable
Shout
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Jose Mujica
Poverty
Energy
Live
Spending
Having
Stuff
Squandering
Want
Stand
Useless
Waste
Wasted
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
Jose Mujica
Government
Constitution
Before
Military
Parliament
Coup
Still
Years
Begin
Did
Just
Fascism
Even
We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
Josefa Iloilo
Strength
Happy
Seen
Diversity
Differences
Stage
Our
Distrust
Inspiration
Division
Development
Reach
Sources
Need
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
Julia Gillard
Game
Together
Wealth
Prosperity
Guiding
Shared
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Principle
Create
Zero-Sum
If the constitution goes, I go.
Kamisese Mara
Constitution
Go
Goes
I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.
Kenneth Kaunda
Fight
AIDS
Killer
Destroys
Because
Disease
Human
Fields
Race
Human Race
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Life
Good
Needs
Live
Satisfied
Good Life
Our
Both
Unsatisfied
Obsessed
Reach
Beyond
Manage
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Terrorism
People
Fear
Consequences
Extremists
Those
See
Like
Motivated
Movements
Form
Us
Exploiting
Who
Populist
Violence
We seriously have to question the motivation of those people referred to as climate change sceptics, who are denying the evidence of human-caused climate change and preventing us from moving forward by spreading disinformation and supporting unchecked carbon pollution.
Kofi Annan
Change
Moving Forward
People
Seriously
Evidence
Those
Preventing
Supporting
Climate
Climate Change
Spreading
Motivation
Referred
Question
Denying
Pollution
Disinformation
Moving
Us
Who
Forward
Carbon
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.
Kofi Annan
Human Being
World
Worth
United Nations
Every
States
Membership
Almost
Almost All
Equal
Principle
Human
Nations
Being
United
Whose
Founded
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan
Women
Equality
More
Development
Countries
Understood
Prerequisite
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
Kofi Annan
Morning
Wake Up
Impact
Could
Leaders
Spoken
Sort
Question
Iraq
Wake
Questions
Up
After
Happens
Region
Bombing
I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Kofi Annan
Will
Born
Remain
Stubborn
Am
Optimist
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
Konrad Adenauer
Rare
Satisfied
Case
Very
Where
Conquered
Conqueror
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
Kwame Nkrumah
Peace
World
Master
Own
World Peace
State
Destiny
Threat
Factor
Makes
Which
Grip
Serious
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
Lee Kuan Yew
You
Man
Vote
Values
System
Run
Moral
One-Man
Able
Literacy
Ethical
Certain
Standard
Need
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
Lee Kuan Yew
Correct
Tried
Always
Politically
Politically Correct
Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.
Lee Kuan Yew
Will
Before
Few
Others
Later
Once
Press
Able
Scatter
Knew
Days
Leaks
Because
Got
Were
Quickly
Reply
Get
Did
Moved
Hold
Away
The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly.
Lee Kuan Yew
Culture
Values
Group
East
East Asian
Rapidly
Total
Individual
Develop
Primacy
Support
Over
Effort
Asian
Interests
Group Effort
Necessary
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Respect
Yourself
Judgment
Own
Those
All Things
Impair
Consult
Counsel
Self-Love
His
Friend
May
Where
Which
Might
Then
Your
Useful
Things
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Harvest
Bad
Must
Sowing
After
Even
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War
Runner-Up
Prize
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