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“Some technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the Internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese woman’s vagina.”

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Book:F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms

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