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“Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.”

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, born on October 29, 1938, served as the President of Liberia. She is the first female president elected in Africa and is renowned for her leadership in the peace and reconstruction process in Liberia. more

“Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.”

Persons Political Courses Views Moral Opinion Saws Century Youth Late Guilty Hypocrisy Paradox Devoted Discourse Twentieth Century Hypocrite Despised Stance Political Discourse

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error.”

Thinking Needs Humans Known Ego Criticism Errors Opponents Dogma Antidote Dogmatic

Author:David Brin

“You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!”

Watches Conversation Disaster Microprocessor

Book:Startide Rising

Source: Startide Rising

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