They saw themselves as well-endowed with all the refined feelings and sensibilities that could be expected of a gentleman.

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Yet it is similarly well-endowed with resources, less indebted, and so strategically important that richer countries have traditionally been eager to bail it out.

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The innovation in China is much more likely to be generated out of the private sector, even though the state sector is hugely well-endowed with resources that could fund innovation.

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The solution begins with honesty and self-reflection, two attributes the EU project is not well endowed with.

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Well-advised by the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, an uncultured person endowed with unrealistic dreams of glory, social hate and an inferiority complex, he has undertaken the enormous task of destroying capitalism and creating a new world order based on the socialism of the twenty first century, which is a fuzzily defined version of twentieth century communism.

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