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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

Being Both Doing Glad
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I hate to be smart.
Hate Smart
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

Associated Once Past Smell
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Work Art Society Only
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Detail Hard Submit Exceed
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

Ask Filming Get Hours
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

Although Am Developments Fascinated
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Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Mind Exists State Being
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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Harm Ends Feel Happy
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The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Tone Mind Gifted Author
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Action Besides Director Educate
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Become Begins Being Conscious
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Because Cling Deal Forced
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Art Far Imitates Life
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Accept Black Definitions Man
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Been Children Elders Failed
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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Ask Become Begin Experience
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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Community Giving Ignorance Journalism
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

Could Destroy Failed Hated
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Any Calling Intimate Knowledge
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Back Bread Cast Floating
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

About Born Changed Changes
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Become Country Educated Impossible
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Become Being Being Real Certain
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When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Am Anything Could Day
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Always Apartheid Change Countries
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Example Gandhi Leadership Power
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I think, at the end of the day, you have to reduce friction to businesses, ideally to zero, so that more and more entrepreneurs can create more and more jobs with higher and higher disposable income.

Businesses Create Day Disposable
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

Advantage Competitive Competitive Advantage Country
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Heroes Learned Mean Philosophers
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My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

Country Court Debate Democracy
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
Company Even Make People
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.

Call Company Every Identify
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

Come Country Economics Global
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Among Challenges Day-To-Day Experience
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.

Appropriate Avail Be Prepared Constitution
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The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Couple Fourteen Glass Me
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Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory.

Allocate Domain Fixed Limit
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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

About Again Also Appreciating
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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Being Boards Crew Discovery
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It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

About Appreciate Been Compare
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Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.
Boy Girl Living Material
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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