The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, ‘has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.’ …
NELSON ROCKEFELLERWherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes.
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The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, ‘urgently requires.
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I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.
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The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks… These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.
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You have a challenge; never quit!
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Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.
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As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.
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There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor’s most affluent ulcer case.
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Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
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There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and “how well you look”.
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You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.
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The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.
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Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
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There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
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The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything
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