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Cooperation Quotes


"The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon."


"We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can."


"To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me."


"We will host the Asean summit in November this year. It will be an occasion to reflect on our achievements collectively and to look at how Asean can maintain its leading role in regional and international cooperation."


"There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different."


"Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature."


"Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation."


"We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representatives come together at an international meeting, we embark on the quest of mutual understanding and support."


"Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it."


"When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century."


"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done."


"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."


"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."


"We gained his operational capabilities and he gained our marketing skills."


"Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction."


"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."


"Control is violence, cooperation is friendship."


"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."


"We are also looking to Canada as we continue to integrate the North American energy market."


"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."


"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."


"I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues."


"For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon."


"Life is a puzzle, a riddle, a test, a mystery, a game-whatever challenge you wish to compare it to. Just remember, you're not the only participant; no one person holds all the answers, the pieces, or the cards. The trick to success in this life is to accumulate teammates and not opponents."


"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier."


"I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman."


"You must have realised by now that when one really cares, really tries to help, the other party recognises the fact and, therefore, easily sees the logic in working together for the greater good, for the mutual benefit of both."



"When perception, thoughtfulness and understanding do meet, we can fashion a range of viable expectations and craft a world of togetherness. ['Morning after']"


"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God."



"Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'."


"It is better to be supportive than be superior."


"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."


"Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition."



"The world is not worthless but one should know how to get work done from it, because everyone is God, they all have different work to do. Therefore do not have dislike for anything in this world."


"There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it."


"Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."


"Life is a wall, you have to climb it by pushing others to climb over and you will be pushed as well. Give a helping hand today."
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