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Kofi Annan Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: ghanaian
Birth: April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018

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Live Stand You Choose Know Want

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

Myself People Think Trying Security

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

Yourself Hurt Others Against Any

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

John Lothrop Motley

Time Sword First Iron Force Only

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Stephen Graham Jones

World Feeling Scared Being Than

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

Support Cool Think Will Over Turn

I was just such a quiet kid. I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Brother Me Gym Down Quiet

Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do.

Congress Prosperity Way Democratic

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

Look Fragile Almost Quite Had

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

Work Weakness Better Person Try See

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Literature Violence You Sex Know

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Myself Think Shadows Village Guy

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Nature Fear Time Rain Curious Down

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