"The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea,"

-- Antonio Guterres

#Country Quotes #Differences Quotes #Korea Quotes

“I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.”
“If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.”
“I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.”
“I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.”
“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”
“But there's one thing we are not going to compromise at all: when it comes to security of Israeli citizens and the State of Israel, there are not going to be any compromises - not now and not in the future.”
“The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature.”
“...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry...”

Source : Billy Collins (2012). “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems”, p.85, Pan Macmillan

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