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"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'"
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Source: George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone
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