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"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
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"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
"We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will."
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there."
"I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people."
"In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear."
"Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council."
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