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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.


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JACK ADAMS After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
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GERRY ADAMS I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS