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Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

Honor People Able Revise
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Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

Against Brake Corrosive Economic
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By allowing super wealthy corporations and individuals to avoid paying their fair share of tax, tax havens are denying governments' revenue that could and should be spent on schools, healthcare, and other essential services.

Spent Revenue Share Avoid
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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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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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That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

Believe Civil Good Country
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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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My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

Door Faith Feelings God
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I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

Acknowledge Country Develop Endeavor
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

Election Fact Fair European
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I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

Always Anywhere Because Felt
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I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

Boring Care Faith Much
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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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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Element Most Only Principle
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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Bear Because Believe Better
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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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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

Anger Capacity Embrace Fear
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It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Art Chronic Clear Creative
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Happiness Beneficial Grief Develops
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Receive Wisdom Discover Journey
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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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It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

Tears Hard Have Caused
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In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.

Younger Days Dreams Possessing
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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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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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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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Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.
Love Never Unsatisfied Lives
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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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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Lying Ourselves Cease Notice
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

Believe Freely Visit Lifted
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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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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

Believe Must Needs Place
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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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It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Grief Develops Power Mind
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With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.

Image Beauty Explore
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But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.

Believe Reality Visible Artificial
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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 bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Bonds Unite Person Exist
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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Always Passing Mind State
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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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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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Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Person Destroyed Cease See
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When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.
Eat Starve Death Half
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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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“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”

Practice Once Good Makes
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What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
What Learned Necessity Inevitable
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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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To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Someone Best Friend Minimum
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