We are far more likely to become wealth creators and societal contributors when we are free to develop our gifts.

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What frightens her is the possibility that we will become so immobilised by dreams and shadows, so free of pain, mentally standardised by the cyber-world that is our principal habitat and rendered oblivious by chemicals, that we will have lost the ability to choose.

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"I think there is a general hesitancy given where we are as a team to become too active too early in free agency, " Alderson said.

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As the secure cocoon of the workplace continues to decay, do we have the stuff to create our own destiny, to become entrepreneurs, free agents, innovators?

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Or as we watch the ways we are all exposed to ideas not only change daily, but become nearly free for marketers to deploy via social media.

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While one looks to government to move things forward from a fuels and technology perspective and the other looks to strong regulatory and societal changes, both recommendations indicate that we need intelligent strategies with some legislative teeth to stop doing what has become a suicidal free market drift with the winds of global changes.

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Since I was a minister of commerce 20 years ago, we were dreaming of having free trade with the U.S., and this has become a reality today, here in Cartagena, and right here where not so many years ago, about 10 to 12 years, that Plan Colombia was launched.

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In some quarters free expression online could become a tradeoff: Say anything you like, so long as we know who really is saying it.

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