"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters..."
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Source: The Cave by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.
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