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It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as richard the lionhearted could have told us). and this is not just a somali problem. we have poverty and deprivation in our own country. try standing unarmed on a street corner in compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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P. J. O'Rourke
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as richard the lionhearted could have told us). and this is not just a somali problem. we have poverty and deprivation in our own country. try standing unarmed on a street corner in compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.
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