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According to just-published budget data, during the first three months of 2015, non-defense spending amounted to 16.5% of quarterly GDP, as planned; but military expenditure exceeded 9% of quarterly GDP – more than double the budgeted amount.

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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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