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Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.

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Bill Gates
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 28
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I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.
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American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D.
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People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'
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