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We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one.

Act Continue Crisis Future
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The U.N. must be made more inclusive, accountable, democratic, effective, and reflective of a world in which political and economic power has shifted.

Shifted Power Economic World
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Global growth and development that is strong, sustainable, and inclusive requires the challenges of inequality to be met head-on.

Challenges Global Growth Inclusive
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Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.

African Big Economic Elite
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Business Country Eradicate Human
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Burning Concern Constant Dedication
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

About Had Left Only
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If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

Again Fans Girl Like
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

Ever Girl Goal Had
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

Bad Good Made Choices
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Anger Begets Lead Love
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When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

About Always Another Chance
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The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.
True Paradises Lost
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude

Reading Fruitful Communication Solitude
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

Desire Makes Blossom Possession
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

Final Decision State Mind
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine

Instead Imagination Suppose Worthless
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We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

Afraid Bomb Brave Build
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And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
Memory Girl Fade-away Forgotten
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Sometimes Future Latent Supposedly
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

Reality Never Towards Road
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

People Dead Affection Faint
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To read too many books is harmful.

Read Books Many Harmful
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People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

Poverty Bad Good People
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What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

Work Struggle Problems Place
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“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”

Example Dry Experience Limit
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“When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.”

Talk Analytic Versus Intuitive
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We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.

Spend Time Thinking Prestige
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There is a set of advantages that have to do with material resources, and there is a set that have to do with the absence of material resources- and the reason underdogs win as often as they do is that the latter is sometimes every bit the equal of the former.

Advantages Material Resources Set
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

God Waiting Admit Importunate
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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Create Heart Works Head
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My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

Hands Special Occupation Kind
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Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
Have Two-roads Chosen Third
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The stars had only one task: they taught me how to read. They taught me I had a language in heaven and another language on earth.
Stars Task Taught Read
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We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

Suffer Incurable Malady Hope
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And you became like the coffee, In the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.

Coffee Deliciousness Bitterness Addiction
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We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Journey Home Halo Head
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Had I known you, I would have possessed you, and had you known me, you would have possessed me. But then you and I would not be

Have Possessed You Me
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The long road has drained me of all feelings and expectations. I don’t feel a thing or expect anything now.

Long Road Drained Feeling
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You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.

Either Have Great Bad
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The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

Looks.stares Giggles Show Everybody
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You don't have to be Magic to be special. You're already special, you're you.
Have Magic Special Already
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Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Playground Picked Guy Best-players
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If you want someone to be your mentor, you better be ready to listen and be humbled.

Want Someone Mentor Better
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

Leader Life Know Anything
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
Dad Hero Personality Mother
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I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.

Blessed Mom Personality Smiled
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
Just Celebrate Life You
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Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.

Extra Given Great Reach
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Learned Leader Perpetual Inspiration
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