“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
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“Well, it seems to me it might be better if the colleges had race horses. The jockeys could wear the school colors and they could ride the races, and the horses wouldn't have to pass the entrance examinations.”
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