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"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
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"Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition."

"For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon."

"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."

"Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."

"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."

"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me."

"There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different."

"Each of our lives is the sum of its parts. No ONE individual is the driving force. And no one person can stall its progression. If everyone plays their position, life evolves without drama, opportunities flourish and ultimately we ALL benefit. When you selfishly overstate your part you only weaken the whole."

"I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman."

"We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills."
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"An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused."


"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."


"The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."


"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."


"It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn."


"Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open."


"At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets."
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