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One doesn't necessarily have a mission.
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Mission
Necessarily
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We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.
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Diamonds
Favor
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The diamond business has always been secretive.
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Business
Diamond
Secretive
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Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.
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Likes
Son
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
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Skilled
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America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
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Business Leaders
Entrepreneurship
Great Business
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Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
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History
Poverty
Campaign
Component
Diamonds
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Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.
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Diamond
Psychological
Psychological Needs
Worthless
Need
Deep
Diamonds
Except
Fill
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May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?
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Donation
Fatigue
African
Countries
Suggest
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Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.
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Certainty
Engagement
Investing
South Africa
Businesses
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I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.
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Opportunity
Believer
Unbelievable
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We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds.
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Marketing
More
Become
Diamonds
Sell
Recognize
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
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Army
Life Good Me
Stead
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One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.
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Diamond
Likes
Maximum
Producers
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I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.
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African
Intend
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You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.
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Cents
Diamond
Dollars
Hundred
Size
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.
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Developing
Maximizing
Natural Resources
Resources
Secured
Africa
Sustainable
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The Kimberley Process is not a perfect construct, and it is necessary now to re-double efforts to address its remaining shortcomings and strengthen its provisions.
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Shortcomings
Construct
Efforts
Provisions
Remaining
Strengthen
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It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.
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Guy
Lines
Nasty
Nice
Nice Guy
Hit
Mr
Got
Line
Story
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I am one of the affluent rich living the good life. But I like to think that I am doing my bit to resolve the problems of Africa and am certainly committed to Africa in the long run.
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Affluent
Committed
Good Life
Resolve
Rich
Life Good Good Life
Life Good I Am
Africa
Certainly
Long Run
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Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country [the UK], or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves.
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Country
Feel Good
People
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I don't think Africa gets as much credit as it should have on the world stage. People tend to think of us as coming from The Dark Continent, where nothing good goes on. That's not true. A huge amount of, as I say, entrepreneurship goes on.
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Credit
Good World People
Continent
World Stage
Huge Amount
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