George W. Bush Quotes, Past Quotes, Accountability Quotes

In the past when money was given from government to government, there was no accountability, especially the World Bank loans. Nobody was held accountable for the misuse of World Bank loans. That is why it is important to channel some of the money through civil society groups.

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In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Past Quotes , Self Quotes

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

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Tags : A. Theodore Tuttle Quotes , Past Quotes , Preparation Quotes

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Past Quotes , Scrooge Quotes

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Past Quotes , Clouds Quotes

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Believe Quotes , Past Quotes

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Time Quotes , Past Quotes

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Past Quotes , Puppets Quotes

The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

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Tags : Adrian McKinty Quotes , Book Quotes , Past Quotes

I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Past Quotes , Remembrance Quotes

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Past Quotes

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Past Quotes , Events Quotes

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life Changing Quotes , Past Quotes

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Past Quotes

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Past Quotes , Looks Quotes

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , What Matters Quotes

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Moving Quotes , Past Quotes

It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.

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Tags : Alan Lightman Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Past Quotes

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Letting Go Quotes , Past Quotes