You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities. - Paul Collier

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My dad really wanted to learn how to sail and, when I was 16, he became a quarter partner in this small, 24-foot trimaran. Three weeks a year, I'd go with him and we'd sail from Florida out around the Bahamas.

Paul Collier

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

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At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

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Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

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Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

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How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious. . . If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children.

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Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

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If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

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Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

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