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"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow."

Ernest Gaines, American Writer

Help, Hurt, Order

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"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow."

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