"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

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"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

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"TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file."

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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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