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All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

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You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.

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.

In today’s world, the security of every one of us is linked to that of everyone else.

Truman Library address (2006)

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. We all share the same basic values.

Simply Living: The Spirit of the Indigenous People (1999)

You have said that your first priority is the eradication of extreme poverty.

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We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

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When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.

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