Bit Operating System

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    University degrees are a bit like adultery: you may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don’t want to be thought incapable.
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    Go on then in doing with your pen what in other times was done with the sword; shew that reformation is more practicable by operating on the mind than on the body of man.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

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    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)