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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."

"I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems."

"One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries."

"What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching."

"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."

"If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women."

"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind."
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