A Quote by Robert Kiyosaki
Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
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Frog is my father's genitals.
Frog is a malformed doorknob.
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