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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)

by Tim Marshall

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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?”
― Malcolm Gladwell, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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