"Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable."

-- Achim Steiner

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“China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.”
“I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.”

Source : Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.
“Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.”
“Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.”
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
“You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.”
“As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.”
“I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,”

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