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• As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight.
  [In fact, this was the big breakthrough for the Wright Brothers....
• All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle
• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever.
  Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again....
• James McNeill Whistler's (painter of "Whistler's Mother") failure in his West Point chemistry examination once provoked him to remark in later life
  "If silicon had been a gas, I should have been a major general....
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