"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."

-- Kofi Annan

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“The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus; it enables us to appreciate with exactness that which accurate minds feel with a sort of instinct for which of times they are unable to account.”

Source : Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.124, Springer Science & Business Media
“When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 460, 1895.
“I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.”
“Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.”
“If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.”
“The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.”
“Iâ€™m not a prophet. Iâ€™m a destiny-changer. Itâ€™s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if youâ€™ve got the power.”
“But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot”

Source : Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

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