Tommy Koh famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
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Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.
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It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
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The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
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When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
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