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When we talk about women's economic empowerment, we should be careful that we're not just giving women more to do.

About Talk Careful Giving
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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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Conflict and callous politics drive famine.

Callous Conflict Drive Famine
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Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

Behind Being Billions Economic
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Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred.

Hatred Lies Borders Closed
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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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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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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

Begin Fasting Penance Practice
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Eating Gives Rise Greatest
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

Effort Relaxation Exception Part
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By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Action Gains Speech Mental
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Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Away Buddhism Cause Confront
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We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Biggest Bodies Cease Complete
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Real Voyage Discovery Consist
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One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

Person Different Acquiesce Feeling
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Desire Cut-across Confused Existence
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Contacts Desire Public Extensive
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Culture Deprive Nations Seeks
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Our desires interweave with one another; and in the confusion of existence, it is seldom that a joy is promptly paired with the desire that longed for it.

Desire Interweave One Existence
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Time Passions Disposal Expand
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The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

Truth Morning War Declared
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The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

Young-people Active Vital Force
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“Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”

Reward Complexity Autonomy Connection
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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Success Function Doggedness Willingness
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Mind Distracted Sorts Heart
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Love Interest Contact Revolve
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Dignity Art Lies Duty
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
Spring Movement Life-stream Unconscious
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Metaphysics Confused Matters Religion
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I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.

Destroy Enemies Converting Friends
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In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One of the qualities of the winds, north or south

World Abyss Heaven Earth
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

Competent Self-confident Incapable Jealousy
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If you want to be successful, you have to be willing to use every connection you’ve got.

Want Successful Have Willing
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Country Politics Considered Waste
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We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
Should Consider Each Human-beings
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

Physically Separated Soul Spirit
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Convinced Happiness Unhappiness Depends
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Great Evil Immorality Forget
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The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Philosophical Nature Endeavors Vicissitudes
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You think when you don't want to do anything. Thinking is a poor alternative to acting. Your thinking is consuming all your energy. Act, don't think!

Think Poor Alternative Acting
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth

Prayer Conduit Power Heaven
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Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

Life Insignificant Inconsequential
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Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him

Man Control Fate Women
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I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Must Confess Born Early
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

American Anglo-Saxon As Far As Better
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Confidence Defeated Life Race
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With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Before Confidence Started
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