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What has life taught you about being human?

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Krista Tippett, to her guests, On Being

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Read by age Any age In their thirties 2 In their forties 1 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 3
Aung San Suu Kyi Leader of the National League for Democracy; Nobel Peace Prize laureate; State Counsellor of Myanmar, 2016–2021
It is in human nature to contain both the positive and the negative. However, it is also within human capability to work to reinforce the positive and to minimize or neutralize the negative.
Recorded Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 16 June 2012 source ↗

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