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"I think it is interesting to look at how most textbooks define energy:
Energy is the ability to do work
This is really a stupid definition. Kind of circular logic, if you ask me. " -
"There goes his standing with people who were tolerating him because he was in the Bush administration."
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In the words of David St. Hubbins, "Too much f*$%ing perspective."
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