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Ban Ki-moon

"Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all,"

Source : "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

Ban Ki-moon

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“I didn't know what to think, but what I felt was magnetic and so big it ached like the moon had entered my chest and filled it up. The only think I could compare it to was the feeling I got one time when I walked from the peach stand and saw the sun spreading across the late afternoon, setting the top of the orchard on fire while darkness collected underneath. Silence had hovered over my head, beauty multiplying in the air, the trees so transparent I felt like I could see through t something pure inside them. My chest ached then, too, this very same way.”
“As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the most basic proof of His existence is black humor. What else explains it, that odd, reliable comfort that billows up at the worst moments, like a beautiful sunset woven out of the smoke over a bombed city.”
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
“I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.”
“The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.”
“A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.”

Source : Brian Martin (2007). “Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield
“The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just werenâ€™t paying attention.”
“Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.”

Source : Oliver Gaspirtz (2014). “Pet Humor!”, p.56, Westhoff Publishing

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