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- The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media.
- Eduard Sagalaev
- A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
- Dominique de Menil
- Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems.
- UNICEF, "The State of the World's Children" (1995)
- Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
- Eddie Myers
- It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
- Robert Solow
- There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
- Phylicia Rashad
- If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
- Claude Roy
- You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.
- Stephen W. Comiskey
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