One should be fair to Putin s regime.

To be fair, there have been exceptions to this stance.

To be fair, there is a growing recognition in some countries of the need for change.

To be fair, such an existential philosophy was not the right s monopoly.

To be fair, world leaders have responded.

However, the contrast between this year s Nobel winners could not be sharper. The IPCC engages in meticulous research where facts rule over everything else.

So, to be fair, let us ask not if the United Nations can do more, but rather what more we can do for the United Nations.

To be fair, governments first under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and now under the Muslim Brotherhood have recognized the challenges.

To be fair, some of what the PRA did makes sense including adjusting risk weights and taking into consideration losses from future conduct costs (translation penalties for breaking the law will be substantial).

In the club we are free to be who we are.

We want to be like the UAE

We want to be partners.

Thirdly, we must be firm.

But we must be very realistic.

We must be ready to adopt them.

Can we be more gentle with light?

And we also have to be aware of the issues.

Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas

We should have been more careful.

We can't be the only two people who're late.

We are pleased to have contributed to that.

You see, being ready to take experts on is about also being willing to dig behind their graphs, their equations, their forecasts, their prophecies, and being armed with the questions to do that questions like What are the assumptions that underpin this?

They seem to be asking, If we can no longer be great, because we have been overtaken by others, can we simply be happy?

We have to be clear no, he is not ready!

We do not want to be pessimistic we want to be realistic.

In honouring that article, we must be inclusive.

It's something we should be following. It's not something that we should be surprised by.

Perhaps in convergent mode we need to be more serious.

We should definitely be very careful using the word.

Where we do need to be ambitious is in reforming the Secretariat's functioning.

We would like to be quite clear and transparent about this.

My point is that we have to be realistic.

It is an extraordinary perversion of the system of freedom we should be encouraging.

We just need you to be authentic and real and say, We're sorry.

We are more than simply national symbols of urban blight.

The choice is simple Do we want to be winners or losers?

As always, it is essential to be informed.

We need to be more creative to break the vicious cycle of conflicts.

All in all, there is room for optimism, but we must be realistic.

That's actually an optimistic observation, because it suggests that if human beings are the agents of cultural destruction, we can also be, and must be, the facilitators of cultural survival.

Or perhaps we are hoping that the we whose interests are taken into account when important decisions are made will not be the we who are among the big losers.

We need to be in that realm. I want to do stuff like that.

Those who believe that investments in the US stock market will maintain the same strong growth trend for decades may well be right.

We are, each and every one, a part of the web of life.

I'm a mathematician. We would like to be able to understand better.