it is inconceivable that ...

it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
 Koichiro Matsuura

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.
 Koichiro Matsuura
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
 Koichiro Matsuura