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“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
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“Around the world, countries flush with cash but poor in arable land are now rushing to secure vast amounts of acreage in land-rich but underdeveloped nations. In theory, of course, such trades could benefit both sides, but in practice they usually raise extraordinarily troubling ethical and political questions. What”
― The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
― The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
“Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;
and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
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and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.”
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“It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.”
― Autobiography
― Autobiography
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