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Lakhdar Brahimi

"A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit."

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"A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money."

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"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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Lakhdar Brahimi
"But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed."

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions."

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it."

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"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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Lakhdar Brahimi
"So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players."

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Lakhdar Brahimi
"There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world."

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