"We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.“


-Yakov Smirnoff

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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

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