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"I have long argued that we need to reopen Alcatraz to house government criminals, and let tourists on excursion boats in San Francisco Bay pay to chum the water with meat with an expired sell-by date that would otherwise have to be discarded."
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"Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom."
— Robertson Davies
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