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I'd Learned A Lot In The Army. I Knew That Above All Things In The World I Had To Become So Big, So Strong That People And Their Hatred Could Never Touch Me.

-Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I'd Learned A Lot

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I'd Learned A Lot In The Army. I Knew That Above All Things In The World I Had To Become So Big, So Strong That People And Their Hatred Could Never Touch Me.

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