"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development."
-Kofi Annan
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"We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.“
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"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
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"We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better."
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"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
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"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance."
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"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
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