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We're a young species; we're only 175,000 years old. on the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. we're 175,000 years old. so we're trying something out. who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? as we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. we've seen we plunder nature. we plunder our neighbor. we create enemies because we're against each other.
-Tom Shadyac
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We're A Young Species; We're Only 175,000

Tom Shadyac
We're a young species; we're only 175,000 years old. on the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. we're 175,000 years old. so we're trying something out. who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? as we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. we've seen we plunder nature. we plunder our neighbor. we create enemies because we're against each other.
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