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Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 3
Died: 2014
Died: January 27
Banjoist
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However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.
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My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.
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If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.
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