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Famous quotes containing the words united, nations and/or convention:

“In the United States there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.