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"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion"
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Leland Stanford
between March 9, 1824 and June 21, 1893. He/she was a famous
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