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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: better not to have xed at all?
Message-ID: <348@sii.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 02:02:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 02:02:09 1983
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I second it: aerodynamics to all!

I can not second the general philosophy of "If you don't try it,
you'll never really know."  This, of course, is a general expansion
of "it is better to have loved and lost..." etc.; but I can't
agree with either generalization.  All that one can really say
is that "it is DIFFERENT to have ..." done something than never
to have done them at all.  It's easy to see the positive results
of a particular phase in one's life, but it is impossible to tell
what would have happened otherwise.  Positive results can always
be found.  (As my brother used to say, "we get better as we progress.")
Negative results tend to get clouded or masked, i think.  Maybe
in an attempt to justify having lived through the time in question,
i don't know.

Mark Mallett
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