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The essential facts in the case don't amount to anything terribly convoluted: Perry Smith and Dick Hickock (here played by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson respectively) met by some luck, conspired to rob a man's farmhouse safe out in Kansas, and after killing a family of four with a shotgun and dagger came away with 43 dollars.

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Yet, no amount of diplomacy or institutional design can make up for local failures and the consequences that they have.

That's an amazing amount of human endeavor.

And what you'll find is that a tremendous amount of work gets done when no one talks to each other.

But if we would count all the individuals, and we take an average weight of them, it would amount to something like 200 to 2,000 kilograms for each of you and me on Earth.

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