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If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there.
Peter Diamandis
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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
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