U Thant Quotes

#1. Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

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#2. Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

Garry Shandling

#3. Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

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#4. Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

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#5. The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

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#6. You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.

Saul Bellow

#7. May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.

Thant Myint-U

#8. The Body Is Very Important, But The Mind Is MORE Important Than The Body

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#9. Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

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#10. To understand my feelings - and my conception of the role of Secretary General - the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.

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#11. Day by day and night by night we were together - all else has long been forgotten by me.

Walt Whitman

#12. The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".

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#13. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.

Wade Clark Mackey

#14. Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.

Marianne Williamson

#15. The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.

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#16. In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished ... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

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#17. Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

Ugo Betti

#18. We are nothing but by the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#19. World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order ... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

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#20. The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

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#21. The more the Word of God abides in a person, the more strength and wisdom he will have.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.

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#23. The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

Albert Einstein

#24. Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#25. I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.

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