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    What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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    There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.
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