"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."

Lakhdar Brahimi, Algerian Public Servant

People, Fact, Will

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"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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"What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something."

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"There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people."

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"In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars."

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"Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice."

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"The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that."

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"But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them."

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"The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations."

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"You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up."

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