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|    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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