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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

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Being a business buff, I knew that Japanese cameras had made deep cuts into the camera market, which had once been dominated by Germans. Thus, I argued in my paper that Japanese running shoes might do the same thing. The idea interested me, ...more

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“All recruits received a copy of Kabila’s Marxist-inspired pamphlet”
― Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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“irrelevance. It would have been an interesting experiment to drop a young”
― Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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“The war can be divided into three parts. The first Congo war ended with the toppling of Mobutu Sese Seko in May 1997. After a brief lull in the fighting”
― Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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“These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

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“Such is the human being: when he is afraid”
― Jason K. Stearns, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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