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| Punishment is justice for the unjust. Saint Augustine |
| There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Lif John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. Joseph Addison |
| Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. Barbara Walters |
| Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle |
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| Blood : Largest vein - The largest is the inferior vena cava, which returns the blood from the lower half of the body to the heart. |
| Helicopters : Smallest - The Aerospace General Co. one-person rocket-assisted minicopter weighs about 160 lb and can cruise for 250 miles at 185 mph. |
| Fruits and Vegetables : Fastest cucumber slicing Norman Johnson of Blackpool College, Lancashire, Great Britain set a record of 13.4 sec for slicing a 12-in cucumber, 1 1/2 in in diameter, at 22 slices to the inch (total 264 slices) at West Deutscher Rundfunk in Cologne, Germany on 3 Apr 1983. |
| Tracks : Widest and narrowest gauge - The widest in standard use is 5 ft 6 in. This width is used in Spain, Portugal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina and Chile. The narrowest gauge on which public services are operated is 10 1/4 in on the Wells Harbor (0.7 mile) and the Wells-Walsingham Railways (4 miles) in Norfolk, Great Britain. |
| Dams : Largest concrete - The Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, WA was begun in 1933 and became operational on 22 Mar 1941. It was finally completed in 1942 at a cost of $56 million. It has a crest length of 4,173 ft and is 550 ft high. The volume of concrete poured was 285 million cu ft to the weight of 21.5 million tons. |
