"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
"The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when the promise of a new day still lingered over French lands, he got up from his pallet and left for the fields, taking to pasture the half-dozen pigs whose fertility nourished him and his wife."
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Source: Portuguese writer Jose Saramago, winner of 1998 Nobel, dies. www.cnn.com. June 18, 2010.
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