"People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we’d have to help make it thunder."
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"One thing that greatly matters is the failure of we rich people to prevent, as we so easily could, much of the suffering and many of the early deaths of the poorest people in the world. The money that…"
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