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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

Teach Children History Understand
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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We must do what is necessary within the rules of ethics. Once Africa understands this, the values of integrity will become the norm, and will promote private sector development.

Do Necessary Rule Ethics
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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Able Attack Break Buddha
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Ghanaians need to start understanding the POWER they have! We gave the POWER to them. Its in our hands! They are supposed to be working for the people and not to be WORSHIPED and hailed!

Ghanaians Power Worshiped Hailed
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Understanding someone is a rare level of intimacy.

Understanding Rare Level Intimacy
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Fatigue Indeed Judging Number
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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Realize Imperfect understanding Human
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Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

Markets Designed Individuals Private needs
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization

Investment decision Scientific hypothesis
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Appraisal Appraise Blunder Cannot
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect

Contend Financial market Never reflect
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No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Does Fills Heart Ills
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Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

Knowledge Love Fosters understanding Common achievement
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Enlightened leadership Spiritual Religious dogma
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

Dreams alive Achieve anything Faith
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Affected Born Leadership Needs
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Character Clue Complexion Fact
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My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

Atomic Compounds Conditions Determined
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Fear Feared Less Life
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Any other attitude other than that of resistance when one is under oppression is pathological.

Attitude Resistance Oppression Pathological
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Let’s approach each other with love, respect, and understanding, the way Nkrumah would ant, the way Sankara would want, the way Fela would want, not with hate like our oppressors.”

Approach Each other Love Respect
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

Any Church End EndResult
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity

Human Never NeverUnderestimate Power
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To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

About Blunder Dull Fantasy
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Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Against Blunder Former However
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Becomes Destroy Longer Need
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Freedom is too enormous to be slipped under a closet door

Freedom Too enormous Slipped
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions Tyranny Act Think
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Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Children Poorest Group America
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Against Am Because Religion
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Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.
Aid Fine Get Metaphors
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My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.

Atheism Evolution Feeling Led
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Really understand Person Point View
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

America Enlightenment Reason Schools
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

You see Never understand Live Way
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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

So inconsistent Human nature Undertake
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Really Understand Contract Marriage
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Around People Constantly Emotions
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Before Flies Heart Judgment
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Because Behind Communicate Driven
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Different Even He Him
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Enter Ever Fire Ideas
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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Never underestimate your potential to be among the best in the world.
Never underestimate Potential Best World
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