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Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute. The work he and the team are doing to reduce extreme poverty is phenomenal.
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What most recently made you cry?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
David Hockney, because he’s so experimental and creative. He continually reinvents himself in a really delightful way.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 December 2021 source ↗
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Anyone who lives outside the box.
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