If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.
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Creativity Element Heritage Human Integral
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
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Civilization Defeat Destabilizing Genocide Ideologies Longer Obliterate
A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
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Civilization Dialogue Individual Seen Universal
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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Centuries Civilization Measured Men Nation Year
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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National Political Reaffirmed Unity Work

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