"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds."
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Source: Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies. www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.
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