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Quote by Howard Hughes
I was not goaded by my father and this had nothing to do with my learning to fly.
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The speaker rejects two possible explanations: their father did not goad or pressure them, and learning to fly was unrelated to that relationship. The statement is a straightforward denial of both claims, without saying what actually motivated the decision to learn.
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