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If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

William Faulkner

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For God Hell
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Build Draft First House Strong Wind Write
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Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
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Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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