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I was young and I just didn't think it through. It was an indiscretion but one for which I hope I can be forgiven.


Kojo Annan

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ELVIS PRESLEY I was so over crying.
KIERA CASS I'm a parrot. I can pick up an accent and just do it.
BRION JAMES I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
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ADAM DUNN I just hope I can make it an exciting race and just go for it again.
AISLINN RYAN But I can please God
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DONALD TRUMP When I see something, I go for it.
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BETSY PALMER I think I'll be alright. I was able to make it through the first one.
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IMELDA MAY I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.
NICOLE SCHERZINGER I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
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BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
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I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
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I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
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ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
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FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
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A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
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Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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KOFI ANNAN If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
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KOFI ANNAN The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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KOFI ANNAN We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will...
KOFI ANNAN We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
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KOFI ANNAN In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
KOFI ANNAN To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where yo...
KOFI ANNAN In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more prof...
KOFI ANNAN Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones ...
KOFI ANNAN In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
KOFI ANNAN We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one ...
KOFI ANNAN Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of red...
KOFI ANNAN The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmo...
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KOFI ANNAN The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly c...
KOFI ANNAN Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from natio...
KOFI ANNAN Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with...
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KOFI ANNAN Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current polit...
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KOFI ANNAN Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
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KOFI ANNAN The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people ach...
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KOFI ANNAN Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they proba...
KOFI ANNAN There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers ...
KOFI ANNAN The tragedy of Srebrenica will forever haunt the history of the United Nations
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KOFI ANNAN On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a proble...
KOFI ANNAN Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping ...
KOFI ANNAN If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch ...
KOFI ANNAN Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ig...
KOFI ANNAN When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the ...
KOFI ANNAN The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political sys...
KOFI ANNAN I have come here to see for myself what is happening and to discuss with the president and the prime...
KOFI ANNAN extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation.
KOFI ANNAN They often lack simple and fundamental information that is crucial to their safety. As we know, in t...
KOFI ANNAN This is inexcusable. Weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger to us all, particularly in a wo...
KOFI ANNAN It is vital that we turn this situation around and ensure that developing countries receive the fina...
KOFI ANNAN We are taking very active measures to ensure that we do not have any more bad apples in that departm...
KOFI ANNAN to see if broader investigations can take place.
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KOFI ANNAN The balance must be redressed.
KOFI ANNAN We are going to work with the Congolese people and the government to make sure we make progress and ...
KOFI ANNAN We can wait until everything is perfect but how much time will that take? One year, two years, three...
KOFI ANNAN I personally believe, as I think a lot of security Council members believe with 100% certainty, that...
KOFI ANNAN The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happen...
KOFI ANNAN The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice...
KOFI ANNAN Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new mille...
KOFI ANNAN Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were...
KOFI ANNAN Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out...
KOFI ANNAN Whether our challenge is peacemaking, nation-building, democratization or responding to natural or m...
KOFI ANNAN If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
KOFI ANNAN I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to le...
KOFI ANNAN I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begi...
KOFI ANNAN We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ...
KOFI ANNAN a new era of human rights in Iraq will now begin.
KOFI ANNAN creative way of approaching the issue and you may wish to share it widely.
KOFI ANNAN Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basical...
KOFI ANNAN given what happened last week, and the tense situation we find ourselves in.
KOFI ANNAN This initiative, which must lead to a full Israeli withdrawal and complete end of occupation in Gaza...
KOFI ANNAN It was normal for us to lend our support to candidates from (African) countries with links to France...
KOFI ANNAN We not only have no convincing evidence of these allegations; we have no evidence of any kind. We ha...
KOFI ANNAN There seem to be efforts coming from Lebanese territory to deliberately create instability along the...
KOFI ANNAN a serious lack of cohesion within the mission as well as a number of other shortcomings.
KOFI ANNAN There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humanki...
KOFI ANNAN Once human-to-human transmission has been established, we would have only a matter of weeks to lock ...
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KOFI ANNAN I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance th...
KOFI ANNAN The states are too high to continue down a dangerous path of diplomatic brinkmanship,
KOFI ANNAN this last chance, and continues its defiance, the council will have to make another grim choice, bas...
KOFI ANNAN They either consider the flood gates are open and they can come with their own amendments or they sh...
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KOFI ANNAN Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing th...
KOFI ANNAN and vulnerable to psychological as well as physical insecurities.
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bul...
KOFI ANNAN Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
KOFI ANNAN It was so brutal, so quick, and so extensive that we are still struggling to fully comprehend it.
KOFI ANNAN exercised through patient diplomatic persuasion and coalition-building.
KOFI ANNAN I had hoped that some of those with the capacity would go to the assistance of those who are in ther...
KOFI ANNAN I am braced and we are all ready.
KOFI ANNAN unhappily, both were found and have been documented in great detail.
KOFI ANNAN What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the intern...
KOFI ANNAN The electoral process has not countered the sense of disadvantage felt by opposition political parti...
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KOFI ANNAN So far, donors have made firm commitments for only 12 percent, 37 million dollars, of the UN require...
KOFI ANNAN Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size...
KOFI ANNAN This summit must be a summit of solutions,
KOFI ANNAN so that we can get away from the idea that some, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, ...
KOFI ANNAN If they are not compensated, they are not going to tell you whether their birds are sick, ... If oth...
KOFI ANNAN well beyond the scope of the powers vested in the Great Council.
KOFI ANNAN The big item missing is non-proliferation and disarmament. This a real disgrace.
KOFI ANNAN Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggera...
KOFI ANNAN guilty of no wrongdoing.
KOFI ANNAN In terms of logistics, the difficult terrain makes this one of most challenging relief operations ev...
KOFI ANNAN to ensure an end to impunity.
KOFI ANNAN New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered ever...
KOFI ANNAN You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are p...
KOFI ANNAN No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that contin...
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KOFI ANNAN I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and lead...
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KOFI ANNAN We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to o...
KOFI ANNAN Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.
KOFI ANNAN I am very grateful that the prime minister and the Cabinet decided not to stick to the deadline,
KOFI ANNAN I think we can rein in the situation,
KOFI ANNAN shocked to know that so many rich governments have given so little.
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KOFI ANNAN when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.
KOFI ANNAN No cause can justify such acts of terror,
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KOFI ANNAN I came to listen and explore ways and means of intensifying the diplomatic efforts and try to achiev...
KOFI ANNAN The president has been asking me for the last three years to come, I am happy to be among you.
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