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And this metaphor of membership in the greater human family is the way that children also describe the money that they invest in these sacrificial buffaloes that are thought to carry people's soul from here to the afterlife, and children will explain that they will invest the money in this because they want to repay their parents the debt for all of the years their parents spent investing and caring for them.

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Over the course of this year that we spent flying back and forth, we realized we had fallen in love with the place.

So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global supply chain.

I estimated that, just today, across the world, we spent about 106 average world lifetimes teaching people how to calculate by hand.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

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