In Spain, a high-speed line between Madrid and Seville is so successful that more people travel between those cities by rail than by car and airplane combined.

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Instead, it's taken place because the benefits of trust--that is, of being trusting and of being trustworthy--are potentially immense and because a successful market system teaches people to recognize those benefits.

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One commonality is that both are relatively difficult ambitions, with far greater numbers of people aspiring to and attempting to be either than those that are actually successful.

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"If Parliament is to be successful and make the best decisions for the country, then people taking those decisions need to more closely reflect the society we purport to represent, " she told MPs.

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But there's a role for the federal government to play, to lend resources to those efforts to make sure that they're successful and responding promptly to the storm and keeping people safe.

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Indeed, people over 55 are almost twice as likely to launch successful companies as those between 20 and 34, according to data from the Kauffman Foundation.

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