"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.“

-Margaret Mead

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"I learned the value of hard work by working hard."

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"Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women."

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"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."

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"Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders."

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