"Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Jean-Marie Guehenno

#Needs Quotes #Aspirin Quotes #Ingredients Quotes

“One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever youâ€™re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people donâ€™t do this.”
“Cash in must exceed cash out.”
“Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.”
“Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.”
“As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.”
“Lost are only those who abandon themselves.”
“I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.”

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