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It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. – Emma Thompson

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You cant be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things arent ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isnt working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. – Emma Thompson

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Women
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Emma Thompson
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I dont think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think theres some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. – Emma Thompson

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work
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Emma Thompson
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If you dont want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights. – Emma Thompson

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Food
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Emma Thompson
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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was peoples only source of knowledge about the world. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Knowledge

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. – Carlos Castenada

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Knowledge

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. – Prem Rawat

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Knowledge

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

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I can live for two months on a good compliment. – Mark Twain

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Im proud of my invention, but Im sad that it is used by terrorists. – Mikhail Kalashnikov

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. – Hannah Arendt

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