"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times."

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Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.

Jan Egeland

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.”
“I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.”
“It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.”

Source : "Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany discusses all her roles - in the same show". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2013.
“Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.”

Source : Letter to Harold Preece, c. June 1928.
“The Book of Mormon is true, just what it purports to be, and for this testimony I expect to give an account in the day of judgment.”
“Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.”
“I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.”
“I mean, even New York isn't in any great shape anymore in relation to the rest of the world.”

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