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From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.


Jean Piaget

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RICHARD III OF ENGLAND your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
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I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
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