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"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
"Be different to make a difference."
"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages."
"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."
"My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation."
"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."
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