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"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."
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"Love God so much that, when you are entrusted with much, nothing else will be able to control your heart."
"One summer at the fag end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I'd agreed to it; but yes is easier than no, and of course when you make a promise you think the time will never arrive: that there will be a nuclear holocaust, or something else diverting."
"The law of getting results says, never leave the place of your decision without taking specific steps directed toward its fulfillment."
"Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time."
"God requires us to give ourselves over fully to serving Him and to do everything to the full."
"Paying the price for your dreams proves you can afford them."
"Perfectionists are patient, the diligent are persevering, and the relentless are successful."
"The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand hours. The world gives way to the man who knows where he is going."
"Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship."
"To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for."
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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