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> [“But the question that tugged at me, and I asked over and over was: What was that “it” that was being sustained? I needed to know because I wanted to bottle “it” and share “it.” Nothing, it seemed to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-l-friedman/but-the-question-that-tugged-at-me-and-i-asked-over-and-over-was-what/)

[Thomas L. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-l-friedman/)

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