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		teaspoon on Nov 4, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The time I hacked my high school The punchier version is, "Better to ask forgiveness than ask permission."

salvadors on Nov 4, 2010 [–]

Punchier still: "Ask forgiveness, not permission".

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