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Politicians must learn to walk away when running on empty like New Zealand PM Adern

When the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern recently announced that she was stepping down, it was not only a shocker to many but also came peppered with an apt soundbite, reminding all of us that 'politicians are human'.

Of course, this is a seemingly obvious but often widely forgotten or ignored fact. Not just by we, the voters, but also by the politicians themselves.

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