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It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

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Francis Fukuyama
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 27
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Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama
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