"If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?"

-- Thoraya Obaid

#Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes #Leader Quotes

“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.”
“Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?”
“That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.”
“Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.”
“Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.”
“Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.”
“We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.”
“Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.”

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