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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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