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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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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Call Like Little Looking
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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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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Building Claim Former Happen
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Always Because Bit Laugh
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Deeds Good Holy Learning
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Also Arranging Came Course
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I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.

Batman Belt Everything Form
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The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

Ability Advancement Allow Architecture
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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.

Appreciate Clinging Day Discovering
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Brain Reality Check
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Truth Creating More Around
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Above Aim Hit Little
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

Live Give Equality
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It's nice when little teams win.

Little Nice Teams Win
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Another Darkness Emptiness Fell
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier

Burglar Faults Financier Qualities
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Any Enough Few Instincts
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Dread Liberty Means Men
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Art Make Reality Unbearable
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Attained Fidelity Happiness Idea
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Away Career Close Duty
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Literature
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Reading Pleasure Solitude You
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Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Criticism Imagination Literature Soul
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

Bad Bad Moments Literary
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Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.

Life Critic
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Believe Believed Critic Criticism
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Alone Being Consider Days
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Believe Decline Even Literary
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Future Literary No Future Say
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.

Ability Basic Best Company
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.

Availability Biggest Corporation Good
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

Accepting Always Any Before
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.

Am Best Company Compare
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Better Current Does Either
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A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

Ability Also Great Great Leader
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
Big Big Responsibility Bring Doctors
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I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

About Awhile Could Devoted
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.

Am Because Desire Enter
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

About Anything Anything Else Competence
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Awaits Creativity Eden Outside
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I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

Because Countries Economy I Think
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