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Barbara Jordan Quotes: Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.
         

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.


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