"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened."
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Source: The Cave. Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.
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