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" Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "
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" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "
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" At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening. "
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" Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. "
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" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "
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" Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. "
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