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"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
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"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
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"Decide on what you think is right and stick to it."
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"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."
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"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
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"It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation."
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"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."
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"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
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"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."
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"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."
Adventure
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
Conviction
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
Hope
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War
"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
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
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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."
Perception
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
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"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."
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