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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. Its like feeding a dog on his own tail. It wont fatten the dog. – Mark Twain

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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door thats unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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