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A cursory look at coverage of the so-called 'Free Tommy' brigade, centered around the alleged censorship of Tommy Robinson, a notorious anti-Islam campaigner, reveals how liberals shun defending the free-speech rights of the unpalatable.
Claire Fox
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Censorship
Coverage
Notorious
Alleged
Brigade
Defending
Liberals
Reveals
Shun
So-Called
Tommy
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I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
Harvey Pekar
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Film Writer
Comic
Comic Book
Mundane
In The Past
Relations
So-Called
Virtually
Working Day
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During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
Darell Hammond
/
Bruised
Celebrate
Elbows
Lines
Safety
Slides
Playground
Skinned
So-Called
Towering
Zip
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There was a notion that I could do only niche films like 'Yevade Subramanyam' or 'Krishna Gaadi'... I wanted to break that and draw in a larger audience so that next time I do a so-called niche film, more people might come out to watch it.
Nani
/
Audience
Break
Film
Might
Next
Next Time
Notion
Time People More
Draw
Watch
Films
More People
So-Called
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In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.
Chrissie Hynde
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Musician
Satisfies
So-Called
Waves
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The argument about the need to regulate the digital space has to be weighed against freedom of expression in our society, whether we are interacting in a virtual world or in the real world where we have the growth of so-called 'safe spaces.'
Claire Fox
/
Digital
Freedom Of Expression
Growth
Interacting
Real World
Safe
Regulate
So-Called
Spaces
The Real World
Virtual
Weighed
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You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.
Josef Albers
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Artist
Accidents
Hundred
Done Always Your
Always Done Your
Falling
Hundred Years
Onto
Result
So-Called
Spoken
Thousands
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But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.
Alex Campbell
/
Politician
Affluent
Despite
Essentials
Ingredients
Lacking
Meaningful
Progress
Life Best Society
Canadians
Entirely
Essential
Extent
Grasp
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Recognized
So-Called
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After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budget-cutters celebrated the so-called 'peace dividend.' As a result, we ignored the toxic mixture of militant Islam and terror that ultimately led to 9/11.
Frank Gaffney
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Columnist
War
America
Cold
Cold War
Ignored
Islam
Terror
Toxic
Believed
Celebrated
Dividend
War Peace History
Led
Mixture
So-Called
Ultimately
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Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count on a master class in splitting the difference between artistry and obviousness during the so-called Blaxploitation era.
Wesley Morris
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Journalist
Artistry
Mood
Splitting
Count
Master
Movies Way Always
So-Called
Soundtrack
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I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
Paul Hawken
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Environmentalist
Environmental
Conservative
Country
Environmental Problems
Political
Thinking
Addressing
Rise
Broad
Towards
Political Movement
Reaction
Shift
So-Called
Trend
Undergoing
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The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were.
Sarah Lacy
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Journalist
Controlled
Credit
Reckless
Wild West
Time Long Long Time
Banks
Wild
Meltdown
Net
So-Called
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I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.
Loretta Napoleoni
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Journalist
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Communist
Correlation
Countrymen
Democratic
Former
Wall
Rise
Enslaved
So-Called
Spreading
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
Jeff Bridges
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Actor
Dark
Fullness
Imperfection
Intertwined
Light
Negative
Perfection
Preventing
Trying
Go
Aspects
Side
Hand
Ourselves
Push
So-Called
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Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.
Robert Reich
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Former United States Secretary Of Labor
Admission
Bridges
Fees
Highways
Museums
Parks
Users
Increasingly
So-Called
Universities
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
Vidya Balan
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Film Actress
Add
Advice
Confused
Inner Voice
Overweight
Thinking
Voice
Compounded
Inner
Outfit
Phase
So-Called
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When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'
James Buchan
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Novelist
Boomers
Brown
Inquisition
London
Register
Treasury
Asset
Commissioned
Gordon
Immediately
Realm
So-Called
Survey
Uk
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I was always, you know, a decent player growing up. And yes, I was born with a certain amount of so-called 'natural ability.' But I also worked and sacrificed a lot to try to maximize what I was born with - which I think is important to point out.
Christian Pulisic
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Decent
Natural Ability
Maximize
Sacrificed
So-Called
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In the so-called age of girl power, we have failed to cut loose our most regressive standards of female success - like pleasing others and looking sexy - and to replace them with something more progressive - like valuing intelligence and hard work.
Rachel Simmons
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Author
Girl Power
Progressive
Sexy
Standards
Failed
Loose
Pleasing
Replace
So-Called
Valuing
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Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.
Guy Standing
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Articulating
Mainstream
Vocabulary
Aspirations
Millions Of People
Obtain
Oriented
Policies
So-Called
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The danger of writing a so-called thriller is that in your last 100 pages, all of these really interesting characters you've created are just running away from something or toward something, but they're no longer capable of innovation or discovery.
Noah Hawley
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Television Producer
Capable
Danger
Discovery
Innovation
Interesting Characters
Pages
Running Away
So-Called
Thriller
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey
/
Author
Dualism
Feelings
Mind
Morality
Secular
Subjective
Treats
World
Everything Else
Locking
Meaning
Physical World
Realm
So-Called
Split
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I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.
Jewel Staite
/
Cult
Teenage
Viewers
Nobody
Watched
Hits
Network
Plug
Prematurely
Pulled
So-Called
Somehow
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And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.
Evelyn Glennie
/
Percussionist
Clue
Deaf
London
Musician
Royal
So-Called
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Why is it that Michael Flynn, who evidently has a great relationship with Putin, who has received payments for so-called speeches and who's spent a lot of time in Russia and was accused of talking about sanctions, he lied about it, and he got caught?
Maxine Waters
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U.s. Representative
Accused
Caught
Great Relationship
Lied
Putin
Russia
Sanctions
Time Relationship Great
Michael
Evidently
Payments
Received
So-Called
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The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.
Michael Dickinson
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Laboratory
Meter
Oil
Giant
Mineral
Robotic
Small Thing
So-Called
Span
Tons
Wing
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Some voters live in a so-called populist bubble, where they hear nationalist and xenophobic messages, learn to distrust fact-based media and evidence-based science, and become receptive to conspiracy theories and suspicious of democratic institutions.
Anne Applebaum
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Journalist
Science
Conspiracy
Democratic
Distrust
Media
Messages
Populist
Receptive
Suspicious
Voters
Bubble
Hear
Learn
Nationalist
Xenophobic
Some
So-Called
Theories
Where
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My so-called 'reservations' and personal comfort zones can't define my work. That's not being professional. I feel that even if an actor is cast for the lead role or for any other part in the film, it is his job to do the film and not create an issue.
Shahid Kapoor
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Film Actor
Comfort
Reservations
Zone
Cast
Define
Issue
Lead Role
So-Called
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I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.
Cindy Sheehan
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American President
Racism
Me Racism People
African
Me People Circle
Circle
Empire
Policies
So-Called
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Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.
Javed Akhtar
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Poet
Accepted
Common Man
Doors
Mainstream
Morality
Envelope
Norms
Notions
Opens
So-Called
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'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.
John Tavener
/
Musical
Series
Together
Wide
Music Together People
Category
Brings
Certainly
Element
Times
Influenced
So-Called
Styles
Whale
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The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of the Irish Free State, blows that attracted the notice and attention of colonial dissidents in Asia and Africa.
Linda Colley
/
Historian
Asia
Creation
Free State
Rising
Blows
Colonial
Confirmed
Irish
Notice
So-Called
Subsequent
Vulnerabilities
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There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
/
Journalist
Hero
Ordinary
Servant
Wall
Puppet
Ruin
So-Called
Steered
Wall Street
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The New Labour political elite has long conspired to secure a so-called 'smooth transition' for Blair's successor. This would amount to little more than the imposition of a leader on the party and our supporters without any real democratic participation.
John Mcdonnell
/
Blair
Democratic
Imposition
Labour
Leader
Participation
Secure
Smooth
Elite
So-Called
Successor
Supporters
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie Deshannon
/
Singer-Songwriter
Genius
Passion
Standards
Strong
Advised
Geniuses
So-Called
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The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.
David Mamet
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Playwright
Assault
Assault Weapons
Banned
Gun
Ignorant
Weapons
Years
Address
Appeal
Ban
Guns
Hoax
Operation
So-Called
Supposedly
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Those bearing the heavy responsibility of caring for captive gorillas should be encouraged to exchange so-called nonbreeders between populations, an inherent process among free-living gorillas and one that avoids inbreeding and also stimulates productivity.
Dian Fossey
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Zoologist
Caring
Heavy
Inherent
Productivity
Bearing
Captive
Exchange
Encouraged
So-Called
Stimulates
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At present, England, America, France, Italy, and Japan constitute the so-called 'Big Five.' Even with the rise of Germany and Soviet Russia, the world has only seven Powers. When China becomes strong, she can easily win first place in the Council of Nations.
Sun Yat-Sen
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Politician
Council
France
Germany
Japan
Russia
Soviet
Rise
World Win America
Constitute
First Place
Italy
Powers
So-Called
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My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. People had such a boundless sense of optimism; They felt they could do anything they wanted to do, and they went out and tried to do it.
Erik Larson
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Journalist
Boundless
Gilded
Progressive
Zone
Overlap
So-Called
Spans
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I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
Russell Peters
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Comedian
Differences
Issues
Race
Respond
So-Called
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
Oliver North
/
Host
Arab Spring
Carnage
Embrace
Horrific
Reverse
Spring
Syria
Too Late
Better People Difficult
Arab
For The People
Frankly
Getting Better
Quite Frankly
So-Called
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Typical tech-driven companies or hardware-driven companies always lay out the so-called roadmaps when it comes to making the new hardware. So, in other words, availability of certain technologies dictates when the company is intending to make the new hardware.
Satoru Iwata
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Businessman
Availability
Hardware
Typical
Dictates
In Other Words
Intending
Lay
So-Called
Technologies
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Vaclav Klaus
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Former President Of The Czech Republic
Efficient
Explicit
Foolish
Pursue
Aiming
Version
Failed
Human Face
So-Called
Third
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'Black film,' unless it's lucky enough or creative enough, or timely enough to build a life of its own, hangs subjacent to 'white film' on Hollywood's financial score board... aided and abetted by the supposition that so-called black film has no foreign market.
Joe Morton
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Television Actor
Score
Supposition
Timely
Aided
Life Black White
Board
So-Called
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My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
Maurice Strong
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Active
Related
Retirement
Anything Else
Explore
So-Called
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
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Actress
Doing The Right Thing
Eating
Right Thing
Shelves
Encouraged
Foods
Opposed
So-Called
The Right Thing
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And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
Robert Jay Lifton
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Psychiatrist
China
Hong Kong
People
Real
Research
Study
Years
Arrange
Interviewing
So-Called
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If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral considerations, then it applies to very few acts of so-called 'pure evil' because most evildoers believe what they are doing is forgivable or justifiable.
Steven Pinker
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Psychologist
Absence
Believe
Committed
Evil
Harm
Intention
Moral
Myth
Pure
Acts
Doing
Causing
Considerations
Few
So-Called
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Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.
Ronald Kessler
/
Hiking
Income
Raised
Tax Returns
Wealthy
Workers
Tax
Report
Businesses
Capital
Hire
Likely
Recession
Returns
Send
Small Businesses
So-Called
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda
/
Lawyer
Bias
Focus
Influential
Millions
People
Powerful
Propaganda
Focus Me People
Africa
Anonymous
Crimes
Criticisms
Individuals
Offends
Quick
So-Called
Suffer
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