"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."

Perception, Purpose, Countries, Country

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"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."

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"We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with it. Babies do it, we all do it; we filter out most of what our senses report."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Perception, Sense, Chaos, Familiarity

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

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"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

David Levithan, American Author

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"When you are seeing a person, you are not really seeing him. You are seeing his reflection through the mirror of your mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"When you read between the lines, you must have bloody good eyesight because I can't see a bloody thing!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"Senses disabled by fear."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"We see the world as we are."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they're wrong!"

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses."

Robert Musil, Austrian Writer

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"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."

War

"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."

Nation

"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."

Conviction

"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."

Adventure

"You can change friends but not neighbours."

Friendship

"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."

Benefit

"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."

Reality

"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."

Health

"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."

Hope

"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."

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