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" The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. "
Pearl S. Buck
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" Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. "
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