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"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
"America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving."
"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."
"Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us."
"A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a person can never set foot in exactly the same river on any given day, we are different each day. Yesterday made us, but the past cannot contain nor restrain us. We can never mentally scroll backward and be who we used to be. We must move forward in the stream of life until the day that our life force dries up and we return to dust."
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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question."
"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."
"When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict."
"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 you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing."
"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."
"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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