Top 100 Improve The World Quotes

#1. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#2. Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Dorothy Kilgallen

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#3. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White

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#4. The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.

Douglas Conant

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#5. The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.

Robert Mundell

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#6. I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

Russell Smith

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#7. A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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#8. How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

Anne Frank

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#9. I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.

Alan Siegel

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#10. Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

Bill Frist

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#11. We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

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#12. I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

J.K. Rowling

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#13. Believe in yourselves. Believe in your capacity to do some good in this world. God sent us here for a purpose, and that was to improve the world in which we live. The wonderful thing is that we can do it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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#14. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

E.B. White

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#15. Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.

John Bruna

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#16. Thinkers educate the world.
Dreamers inspire the world.
Helpers improve the world.
Doers change the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#17. To actively improve the world
and change your life as well,
speak all the good you know,
and all the bad refuse to tell.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#18. I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

Jack Lew

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#19. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#20. It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.

Zach Braff

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#21. How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Diana E. Ruiz

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#22. We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

Lauryn Hill

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#23. The kind of people we are is more important than what we can do to improve the world; indeed being the kind of people we should and can be is the best, and sometimes the only way to improve the world.

C.S. Lewis

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#24. All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

George Bernard Shaw

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#25. It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve

Plato

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#26. What motivates me is the chance to improve the world in my own special way; to contribute to the fight that all artists are fighting. I want to hold the mirror up to society and help them see themselves more clearly. I also love just making people laugh.

Jinkx Monsoon

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#27. We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

Neal A. Maxwell

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#28. A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

Bill Gates

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#29. Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business ... because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

Stefan Molyneux

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#30. E. B. White once wrote, I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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#31. The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

Philip James Bailey

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#32. Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.

Derek Sivers

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#33. To improve the world start by improving yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#34. If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer.

Stephen Porges

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#35. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#36. If You and I want to improve the world, You and I have to improve the school.

Sumit Dahiya

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#37. It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Moliere

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#38. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

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#39. I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Milan Kundera

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#40. I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.

Lloyd Kaufman

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#41. Possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work.

Charles Dickens

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#42. You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#43. I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#44. I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.

Trevor Noah

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#45. If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Van Wyck Brooks

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#46. There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

Marianne Williamson

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#47. Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven ... My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

Julian Simon

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#48. All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Peter Diamandis

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#49. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

John Wesley

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#50. The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Lucy Stone

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#51. Improve your business, your life, your relationships, your finances and your health. When you do the whole world improves.

Mark Victor Hansen

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#52. If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

Eric Alterman

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#53. I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

Rachel Roy

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#54. The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

Odd Nerdrum

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#55. China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them.

Bill Gates

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#56. Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children? Trusting the market to regulate may not ultimately be in our interest.

Noreena Hertz

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#57. Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Pope Francis

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#58. When we get rid of our ego, we stop doing things to impress others, we stop trying to cling to the idea of ourselves and we realize that we are a part of the natural world. This realization will give us the perspective that is greatly needed to improve the state of our society.

Joseph P. Kauffman

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#59. Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.

Chris Hardwick

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#60. Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.

Victoria Clayton

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#61. The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

Daniel Willey

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#62. At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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#63. The great challenge of the '90s ... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

Norman Cousins

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#64. I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.

Peter Singer

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#65. When you do something for world peace, peace among groups, peace among individuals, or your own inner peace, you improve the total peace picture.

Peace Pilgrim

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#66. It's all about trying to make the world and the universe a better place. I'm proud to be connected with it. I think we need that in our lives. We need ethical, heroic people trying to do the right thing to help others and to improve life on this planet and in the universe.

Leonard Nimoy

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#67. I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

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#68. We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

Bill Gates

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#69. Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

Larry Page

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#70. If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

Alonzo Mourning

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#71. Literature is an invitation to people to discover the world of others and the world of others is the best source to understand and to improve our own world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#72. Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

Joe Vitale

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#73. If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

Yair Lapid

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#74. We all want things that are not necessarily essential, but we always choose those actions which we think will best improve the situation from our viewpoint. This means that the ideas that men hold determine their choice of actions. This means that the most important thing in the world is ideas.

Percy L. Greaves Jr.

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#75. CoverGirl's Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women overcome life's challenges, and my commitment to highlighting girls' successes. I am thrilled to partner with CoverGirl to embark on this exciting journey to improve the lives of girls and women in the world.

Soledad O'Brien

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#76. We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

Sri Chinmoy

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#77. What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society.

Daisaku Ikeda

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#78. There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Kass

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#79. Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Herbert Hoover

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#80. The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

Alexander Graham Bell

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#81. Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

Ann Patchett

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#82. Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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#83. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor decisions reflect, in my view, that our society has worked very hard to improve the workaday world, to open doors to workers confronted by powerful employers and for women facing harassment and stereotypes.

Joe Biden

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#84. Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.

Bikram Choudhury

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#85. The inventor ... looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

Alexander Graham Bell

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#86. It is important that we don't let victory rob us of our strength. Simply because we accomplish a great thing doesn't mean the struggle is over. We must continue to improve ourselves and our world. That is the only worthwhile existence.

Donald Meeks

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#87. Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

Jane Goodall

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#88. Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

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#89. We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

Daniel Dennett

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#90. As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

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#91. Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world.

Frederick Lenz

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#92. Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.

Wilferd Peterson

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#93. When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.

Mike Krieger

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#94. A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Jane Bryant Quinn

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#95. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our web-like existence in the world . We clump into family , association, and companies.

Tim Berners-Lee

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#96. Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

Tom Hayden

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#97. They needed to develop an interest in the world, they needed social contact and to develop an aspiration to improve their wellbeing before we had any chance of persuading them to become involved in self-managing their health and wellness.

FlatBear Publishing

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#98. I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.

Ramez Naam

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#99. There is no greater cause than making the world fit for children. I feel very strongly about carrying on the family tradition by working with UNICEF to help improve the lives and well-being of children everywhere.

Tea Leoni

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#100. Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.

Virginia Foxx

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