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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.

— Fran Lebowitz Social Studies (1981)

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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

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