"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"It is important not to trust people too much."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
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"There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice."
-Boris Kodjoe
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"If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sure those Americans who have suffered as a consequence of past agreements have an effective social safety net, adjustment assistance, opportunities for retraining and new job creation that enables all Americans to thrive."
-Susan Rice
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"And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe."
-Clifford D. Simak
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"The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation."
-Lee Myung-bak
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