"More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international organisations, where military and civilian instruments are applied in a coordinated way."

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Source : Speech at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Madeira, www.nato.int. May 25, 2007.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

#Military Quotes #Development Quotes #Levels Quotes

“A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.”
“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.”

Source : Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor
“I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now.”
“All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.”
“We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.”
“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
“The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.”
“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”

Source : Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's speech as the guest of honour at the dinner hosted by Felipe Calderon at the National Palace in Mexico City, July 16, 2007.

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