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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes: We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
         

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.


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