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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
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"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college."
"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
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