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Though Putin has tried to stoke a popular desire for empire with his Crimea annexation and intervention in eastern Ukraine, these actions amount to little more than open theft by masked men in the dead of night; they have little chance of begetting lasting glory.

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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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