The common vision that we used as a point of departure we have confirmed today.

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Authors of the current version, led by Barda Nawawi Arief of Diponegoro University in central Java, used that draft as a point of departure.

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The exhibit wisely takes Gilgamesh as a point of departure.

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When we are determined to make this a better world, there is a tendency to focus almost exclusively on the external world as the point of departure.

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This could be a point of departure for an inclusion strategy that uses the mobile phone as a gateway into the financial system.

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