"If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world."

-- Kofi Annan

#Respect Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #World Quotes

“I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.”
“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldnâ€™t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language â€“ and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers â€“ a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isnâ€™t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”
“Putin knows how to run the KGB playbook. I mean, he knows how to work people.”

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“A gun is a liar's weapon”
“The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty”
“Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.”
“Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.”
“If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.”

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