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I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. Y

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see whats happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. – Henning Mankell

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Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that its a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls. – Henning Mankell

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Society
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Henning Mankell
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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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Knowledge
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Henning Mankell
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The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered. – Henning Mankell

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positive
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Henning Mankell
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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. – Lee R. Raymond

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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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I dont have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. – Charles Kuralt

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I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. – John Key

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One of my movies was called True Lies. Its what the Democrats should have called their convention. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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A film that I love is Raising Arizona and thats funny but its quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. Id love to do something like that. Who knows? – Stephen Moyer

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. – Aesop, “The Man and His Two Wives,” Fables

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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. – Sandra Day OConnor

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