David G. on Clubhouse

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🛫🌏Global traveler and intrigued by international issues and cultures. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇨🇺🇲🇽🇵🇷🇪🇨🇮🇳🇲🇾🇮🇩🇨🇳🇸🇬🇪🇸🇹🇭🇦🇪🇬🇷🇱🇰🇹🇼🇾🇪🇯🇵🇯🇲🇰🇾🇻🇳

“Travel isn’t always pretty... you go away... you learn... you get scarred…marked... changed in the process. It can even break your heart…”
- Anthony Bourdain (R.I.P.)

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Earnest Hemingway

“The orderly transfer of Power is a commonplace occurrence for Americans… In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle…”
- President Ronald Wilson Reagan

📚Top Reads:
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“The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy”
- Christopher Leonard

“The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East”
By: Robert Fisk

“The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power”
By: Daniel Yergin
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♟Chess Enthusiast♟

“Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas. “
-Jose Raul Capablanca

“I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!”
-Emanuel Lasker
Author/Chess Grandmaster

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Favorite places:
- Cuba
-Vietnam
-Australia
- Spain/Basque Country
- Singapore/South East Asia
- Bali/Indonesia
- Sri Lanka
- Greek Islands

🇨🇺🇺🇸 1st generation Cuban American
🎓Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara alum
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