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   Message 455 of 1,217   
   Brent Anderson to All   
   Re: Why send latest Mars Rovers?   
   25 Jan 04 17:49:30   
   
   From: brent_anderson@DELETETHISmsn.com.retro.com   
      
   > "Let those who complain that too much money is being spent on abstract   
   > knowledge while people are starving remember this:  The alternative to   
   > knowledge is savagery.  Their very existence as stowaways on the voyage   
   > of civilization is owing to advances in science which permit some to   
   > live without doing their share of the work.  Let them be tolerant, then,   
   > lest by encumbering the useful ones they destroy the thing which keeps   
   > them alive."    -- George Ellery Hale   
      
   That is my new "sig" file in all my chat groups!   
      
   Brent   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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