"It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?"

-- Koichiro Matsuura

#Educational Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Information Quotes

“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”
“Defeating terrorism in Libya can only be achieved through the political and institutional determination of a united Libyan government, which will need the strong and unequivocal support from the international community in confronting the myriad challenges facing Libya.”
“Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.”
“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”
“One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.”
“Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.”
“Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.”
“He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill.”

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