Poor countries are poor because they are hot, infertile, malaria infested, often landlocked; this makes it hard for them to be productive without an initial large investment to help them deal with these endemic problems.
“In matters of food I am French, in matters of love I am Italian, and in matters of business I am Swiss.”
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― Shantaram
“the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we fear it so much.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
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