What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one. (Margaret Mitchell)

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

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