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"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."
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"When people come together and discuss their differences based on life issues that are shared, it brings about successful changes."
"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."
"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."
"Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."
"Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'."
"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God."
"Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today."
"Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition."
"It is better to be supportive than be superior."
"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done."
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"It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be."
"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"
"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."
"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there."
"But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression."
"The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration."
"All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers."
"And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian."
"Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions."
"A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal."
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