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• Nada es perfecto. La vida es confusa. Las relaciones son complejas. Los resultados son inciertos. La gente es irracional.

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  Relationship, Perfect, Dating

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• The thing we need most is each other.

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  Necesita

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• If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start with politics and I wouldn't say too much about terrorism. I'd suggest as a first step, that you invite the neighbours over for a drink this weekend. Today a drink, tomorrow a barbeque, pretty soon, a community.

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  Weekend, Community, Anxiety

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• One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

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  Liderazgo, Empresa, Responsabilidad

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• En realidad, no puedo imaginar nada más tedioso que una persona perfecta, sobre todo si fuera alguien que también me exigiera perfección a mí.

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  Perfect, Imagine, Persons

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• On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

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  Couple, Average, Talking

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• Una de las razones por las que nos resistimos a tomar decisiones deliberadas es que elegir equivale a cambiar y la mayoría de nosotros, al sentir que el mundo ya es suficientemente impredecible, intentamos minimizar el trauma del cambio en nuestra vida personal.

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  Choices, Feelings, Trying

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• El anhelo de un liderazgo fuerte tiene más que ver con la fuerza del propósito -la claridad de visión- que con el mero hecho de "hacerse el duro".

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  Leadership, Strong, Vision

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• Un día extrañamente reflexivo, incluso melancólico. Es que, a diferencia de nuestros primos en el hemisferio norte, la Pascua no se asocia con la energía y la vitalidad de la primavera, pero con el espíritu más tenue de otoño.

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  Easter, Cousin, Spring

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• Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

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  Leadership, Inspiration, Essence

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• Entonces, si el descenso de los índices de delincuencia coincide con el auge de los videojuegos violentos y el aumento de la violencia en la televisión y el cine, ¿debemos concluir que la violencia mediática está causando el descenso de los índices de delincuencia?

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  Fall, Games, Media

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• Sospecho que el secreto de la atracción personal está encerrado en nuestras imperfecciones, defectos y fragilidades únicas.

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  Unique, Imperfection, Secret

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• Pero la regla parece ser que cuanto más grande y más cambiante sea la decisión, menos parecerá una decisión en absoluto.

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  Life Changing, Decision, Bigger

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• Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.

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  Children, Worrying Too Much, Trying

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• Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

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  Ideas, Choices, Culture

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

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  Magic, Lovely, Inevitable

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• Los efectos imitadores de la violencia mediática, similares a los atribuidos anteriormente a los westerns, los seriales radiofónicos y los cómics, son fáciles de exagerar.

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  Book, Media, Violence

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• Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

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  Educación, Infancia, Oportunidad

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• A nadie le gusta el caos, pero ¿por qué anhelar la estabilidad y la previsibilidad?

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  Chaos, Stability, Crave

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

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  Educación, Lectura, Escritura

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• Leer es un gran esfuerzo para muchas personas, un aburrimiento para otras y, aunque no lo creas, mucha gente prefiere ver la televisión.

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  Believe, Reading, People

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• It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia.

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  Leadership, Strong, Australia

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• With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

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  People, Growing, Vehemence

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• Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.

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  Escritura, Habilidades, Ideas

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• Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

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  Niños, Juegos, Jugar

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