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Hans Rosling
“The only proven method for curbing population growth is to eradicate extreme poverty”
Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Robert B. Reich
“Education is a public good that builds the capacity of a nation to wisely govern itself, and promotes equal opportunity.”
Robert B Reich, The Common Good

Hans Rosling
“Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot.”
Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling
“In 2016 a total of 40 million commercial passenger flights landed safely at their destinations. Only ten ended in fatal accidents. Of course, those were the ones the journalists wrote about: 0.000025 percent of the total. Safe flights are not newsworthy”
Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Yuval Noah Harari
“History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human”
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

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