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" Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough? "

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" We should not look down on our first ancestors. "

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" If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music... That would be so much cheaper than bombs. "

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