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• George Washington, father of our country. George Washington, when he was just a child, just a boy, honesty was his trademark.
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• The drummer is level when he drools out both sides of his mouth.
• Mr. Burns always answers the phone by saying, "Hoy Hoy!
  This is the word that Alexander Graham Bell suggested that we all say when we answer the phone....
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  -- Thomas Szasz...
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  -- Thomas Ediso...