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“The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.”
“The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.”
“The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.”
“The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians...”
“The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
“The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.”
“The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.”
“The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.”
Source: Towards a new world: defining moments
“The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.”
“The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.”
“The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.”
“The unacceptable over time becomes the norm.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.”
“The unadulteratedness makes a person beautiful.”
“The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.”
Source: Works
“The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)
“The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.”
“The Unanswered Question by Stewart Stafford
Ask a body why it lies in a grave,
And no answer shall ring in your ears,
Ask the rat that squeaks like a knave,
And there is nothing to ease your fears.
See lightning's fiery eye wink a hint,
Hear thunder belching out proud,
Hail is flicked off like lint,
Dumb as a corpse in its shroud.
Mourners do splutter and cry,
In unison or solitary grief,
Hysteria governs their reply,
Tongues pocketed by sorrow's thief.
Only when you lay in dirt senselessly,
Do answers come out of reach,
Secrets clouded eternally,
To an owl's shrill and wise screech.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
“The unarmed man is not just defenseless - he is also contemptible.”
“The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.”
“The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.”
“The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.”
“The unattainable can never be measured.”
Source: The Desolate Garden
“The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.”
“The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.”
Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms
“The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.”
“The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.”
“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.”
“The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are. To follow a path with heart, we must understand the whole process of making war within ourselves and without, how it begins and how it ends. War’s roots are in ignorance. Without understanding we can easily become frightened by life’s fleeting changes, the inevitable losses, disappointments, the insecurity of our aging and death. Misunderstanding leads us to fight against life, running from pain or grasping at security and pleasures that by their nature can never be satisfying.”
“The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.”
Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The unbelievable is nothing more than my lack of faith in action. Easter is nothing less than God building my faith by putting the unbelievable into action.”
“The unbelievable that came true stayed with me, and I believed in the unbelievable, in the star that had followed me through life, and with its gleam constantly before my eyes I began to believe in it more and more, because it had made me a millionaire, and now that I had been brought to my knees I realized that my star was brighter than ever, that only now would I be able to see its true brightness, because my eyes had been weakened by everything I had lived through, weakened so that they could see more and know more.”
Source: I Served the King of England
“The unbeliever attempts to enlist logic, science, and morality in his debate against the truth of Christianity. Van Til's apologetic answers these attempts by arguing that only the truth of Christianity can rescue the meaningfulness and cogency of logic, science, and morality.”
“The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.”
Source: Maurice
“The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.”
“The unbeliever knows his Koran best.”
“The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.”
“The unblemished blanket of white looked like icing on a cake dusted with glittery sugar. The scene was magical--perfect for Christmas morning." Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.”
“The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.”
“The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.”
“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”
“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!”
“The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.”
“The unbridled hymnal
becomes a prayer for sustenance.”
“The unbroken awareness is a symbol of Cosmic consciousness. A realized soul is always in the cosmos, reinforcing the absolute consciousness as the ultimate truth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“The unbroken realization that you are indivisible from the universe, from universal consciousness, from the source of everything - that you are that source, that there is no other, no second, nothing that is not part of that unity, except as transitory illusion. If you could maintain that realization at all times, through waking and sleeping states of consciousness, across the threshold of death itself, what would you be?”
“The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.”
“The unceasing flow of thought in all its various forms is an inescapable and defining aspect of the human condition.”