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So I've spent a lot of the last 10 or 15 years trying to find out what could be that self-interest that would encourage not just politicians but also businesses and general populations, all of us, to start to think a little more outwardly, to think in a bigger picture, not always to look inwards, sometimes to look outwards.

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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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