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“The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.” quote by Yvon Chouinard — Download Open image

“The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.”

Yvon Chouinard

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