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We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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