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Parents who believed in the value of "getting ahead" started to apply pressure from the beginning of the school career.

— Matilda White Riley

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... one seems forced to conclude that a disproportionally large number of the nation's "pockets of poverty" are found in rural-farm areas.

Today's social structures and norms are the vestigial remains of the nineteenth-century, when most people died before their work was finished or their last child had left home. Age 65 was established as the criterion for insurance eligibility in Germany back in the late 1870s—yet age 65 is still used in many countries under today's utterly changed conditions of longevity.

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