Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We donβt see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if youβre surrounded by people who say βI want mine now,β you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.
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