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"You were not born yesterday, you understood exactly what you were doing," he said.

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Because he was not born yesterday, Engoron is unlikely to believe that being female is an all-purpose preventative from buying into gender stereotypes, however.

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I was not born yesterday, and the last few bogus trickle-down tax laws did not help me or anybody I know in any way.

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Perhaps he was under the weather or had had a few cocktails but Kuttner was not born yesterday saw through his ploy. 

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“I was not born yesterday,” Renu says.

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