

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.”
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“No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's”
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“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos

“You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.”
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“The ideal country in a flat world is the one with no natural resources, because countries with no natural resources tend to dig inside themselves. They try to tap the energy, entrepreneurship, creativity, and intelligence of their own people-men and women-rather than drill an oil well.”
― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
― The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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