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"Once, one of my students
read a book we had.

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She was doing a
history assignment

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on the decline and fall
of the Roman Empire,

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and she was crying.

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When I asked her why, she said
because all those people died.

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I said, if you start
to cry for the dead,

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you won't have much
time for anything else.

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Besides, after all the city
people were killed or died off

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because their
culture got too high,

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the barbarians
kept some peasants

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alive for their food value.

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Some barbarian raped
some peasant woman

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who produced a child, who
ultimately produced you and me.

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So there is this
family continuity.

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So don't cry.

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It's obvious.

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Look around.

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This is the reason why
we Americans are a nation

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of peasants and barbarians."

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