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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Against Arguing Been Globalization
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Lazy Bored Familiar Craves
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Abject Billions Countries Developing
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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Love My Weight Body
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

Afternoon Places Shy Sunny
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Between Calculations Choose Driven
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

World Unique Sense Class
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Build Business Civil Community
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I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

Have Big Fear Change
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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I sound the same regardless if I'm 20 pounds heavier or 20 pounds light, and I think that's the key thing with my fans and why they continue to be loyal because I'm that type of person.

Sound The Same Regardless
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poet Love Person Before
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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Honestly, I just think we all have special gifts, everyone. You know, obviously, some are more noticeable than others and that's why there's the limelight. Everybody's in it.

Honestly Just Think Have
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Walk Factory Assembly Feel
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Able Advantage Alone Being
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The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.

Question Love Get Asked
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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Above Arise Both Commitment
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Race Class Money Distinctions
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

Actions Being Class Games
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I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they're all pretty eclectic pop.

Think One Thing You
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I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about.

The Perfect Amount Guarded
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Central Conditions Democracy Development
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I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first.

Love Twitter At First
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Considering Difficult Even Faith
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I've got a song on One Direction's album called 'Tell Me A Lie'. It's a really cute song - I love it. I loved that they liked it.

Got Song One Direction
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.

Alike Beneficial Central Development
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Emotion Happy Romance Passionate
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Democracy Education Foundation Freedom
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I'm very friendly or whatever, but I would hardly say that I'm that cookie-cutter. I don't live in L.A. or New York.

Very Friendly Whatever But
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Mind Center Known Find
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.

Love Dressing Up Doing
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Easy Holding Feels Commit
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I'm proud of everything I achieved with 'Idol,' and away from 'Idol' also. It's just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn't even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

Proud Everything Achieved Idol
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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Appreciate Change Climate Fully
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.
Actually Not Big Fan
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

Point Terminal Sins Tend
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What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Also Collective Governments Interest
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We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
Allow Cannot Leaders Situations
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Even though I hate acting, I love doing videos for my songs.
Even Though Hate Acting
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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

Sing Song That Have
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