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" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

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" Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans. "

Michelle Bachelet

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" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "

Jean Paul

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" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "

" In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone. "

" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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You

Wisdom

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "

" The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. "

" The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance. "

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Walk

Should

" We are wiser than we know. "

" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Pocket

People

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Happy

Wise

Be Happy

" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom

Common Sense

Sense

" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "

" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" Giving opens the way for receiving. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

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Opens

Receiving

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "

" God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him. "

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "