[H]uman beings. . . make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've … - Takeru Kobayashi

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It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look at the history of extinctions, we've killed off an awful lot of animals - and I don't think we're doing a very good job of looking after the planet.

Takeru Kobayashi

[H]uman beings. . . make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts. . . the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

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