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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man."

"Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out."

"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."

"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

"Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people."

"The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform."
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"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."

"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."

"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."

"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."

"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."

"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."
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