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From: linkowiz Category: Links Date: 20 December 2006 Time: 10:06 AM Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/magazine/17charity.t.html """At that point we reached our destination. Had the journey continued, I might have tried to persuade him that people can earn large amounts only when they live under favorable social circumstances, and that they don’t create those circumstances by themselves. I could have quoted Warren Buffett’s acknowledgment that society is responsible for much of his wealth. “If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru,” he said, “you’ll find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil.""""