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"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
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"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
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"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
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