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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Agency, Competition, Progress

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Government, Differences

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• The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.

  Barack Obama

  Mass Destruction, Nuclear, Weapons

  Barack Obama during debate with Republican former Ambassador Alan Keyes, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Simple, Effort, Disarmament

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• The attack is that process by means of which you remove obstructions.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Chess, Process, Obstruction

  Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Real actors are the most courageous people I know. They dare to live vibrantly in the present and to state in a clear way, and in front of hundreds of witnesses, 'this is what I know to be true; this is my point of view and I will risk my life for it. Think of me what you will, I will fight - with any and every means available to me - for what I know is as right and as necessary as air and water.'

  Larry Silverberg

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

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• Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

  Joseph Curiale

  Change, Courage, Should

  Joseph Curiale (2011). “The Spirit of Creativity: Thoughts on Living One's Creative Truth”, p.9, BookBaby

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• If you are anxious about a business deal or worried about your job, you are seeing failure as a possibility. And having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means of realization of the end. It is a shocking truth we should never forget.

  Eric Butterworth

  Courage, Jobs, Business Deals

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• I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech, when he got made President and they put all that bullet proof glass in front of him? I think that shows you how racist America still is. Just because he's black doesn't mean he's going to shoot anybody.

  Frankie Boyle

  Sorry, Fighting, Thinking

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• In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Decision, Ownership

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• So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Art, Military, Thinking

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

  Petra Kelly

  Determination, Self, Vision

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• I think that nonviolence is one way of saying that there are other ways to solve problems, not only through weapons and war. Nonviolence also means the recognition that the person on one side of the trench and the person on the other side of the trench are both human beings, with the same faculties. At some point they have to begin to understand one another.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  War, Thinking, Understanding

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• Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind eye to them, and pretend that the weapons are no longer a threat. We will not in any way tolerate the testing of nuclear weapons, or their manufacture, or their deployment.

  David Lange

  Eye, Deployment, Nuclear

  David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  World Government, Rights, Law

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• If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.

  Pope John Paul II

  Communication, Responsibility, Media

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• In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

  Mahbub ul Haq

  Children, Analysis, Disease

  Mahbub ul Haq, Institute of Social Sciences (New Delhi, India) (2001). “Human development in South Asia: concepts, concerns, agenda for action”

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• I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  Herbie Hancock

  Moving, Organization, Perfect

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• Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Worthwhile Things, Self

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

  Johannes Rau

  Creativity, Giving, Joy

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• I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

  Ben Nicholson

  Ideas, Holy Grail, Minimum

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• Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Succeed

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• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Secret, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

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• You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.

  Jessica Jung

  Love, People, Forget

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• I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

  Annie Lennox

  Dream, Loss, Years

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