The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
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Thursday, April 05, 2018
Friday, March 03, 2017
The real objective must always be the good life for all the people. International machinery will mean something to the common man throughout the world only when it is translated into terms that he can understand: peace, bread, housing, clothing, education, good health, and above all, the right to walk with dignity on the world's great boulevards.
Ralph J. Bunche, Mont Tremblant, Canada (1942)
Ralph J. Bunche, Mont Tremblant, Canada (1942)
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