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gold and land
Sorry i don't have much to add to this, but in a request for help related to this thread, does anyone remember Dean's speech in closing ceremonies at nationals, i believe 2 years ago (finals 2001) When he said something along the lines of the way the world worked, i've got this gold, you've got that land, and i'll give you this gold, and you give me that land, but today in the world there are 'n' billion people... (full of those dramatic pauses Dean always puts in) so everyone has a little less gold..... a little less land... But if i have an idea, and you have an idea, and we trade, now we both have two ideas....
I don't even need a video or audio copy of this, if anyone has a copy and could just type up exactly what he said, or if anyone remembers it pretty close to exactly what he said, I'd really appreciate it.
I don't personally have any copies of Dean's speeches, but i think my roommate (another FIRSTer since high school) found some vids of interviews with Dean Kamen on Cyber Blue's webpage, I could be wrong about that but it might be worth a look.
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"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe .... In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. "
Carl Sagan
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