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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 the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will? "

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" To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there. "

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" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "

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