"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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"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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"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
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