The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. - Conor Cruise O'Brien

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Conor Cruise O'Brien: "The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."

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Down	Enables	Endears	Fail
Governments	Main	Member	Nations
Proven	Safely	Survive	Thing
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