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What would you most want to leave your children?

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Mohamed ElBaradei Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005
For them, home is the world. For them, every human being is just one member of that large human family you have. ... if we have more children like mine, in my view, we will not have war.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2006 source ↗
More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2025 source ↗

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