"I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations."

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Source : "Annan's son: Probe 'a witchhunt'" by Jeff Koinange, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 13, 2004.

Kojo Annan

#United Nations Quotes #United Quotes

“ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.”
“It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.”
“The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1963). “Autobiography”
“I wish for the thing that is best for me.”
“A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.”
“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”
“I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.”
“I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity”

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