"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development."

-- Anna Lindh

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“A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.”
“My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.”

Source : "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took.”
“The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.”

Source : Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.
“If a bush is too big, don't ask "should I?" Go ahead and cut it. If it lives, great. If it dies, replace it with something better suited!”
“I cry when I work in the garden, because the Sun, the rain, the wind and the Earth all work together to make us food and flowers. It just blows me away.”

Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.”

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