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We can do this. No, really, we can do this. But as with any attempt to fully cook a half-baked idea, it will require some inspiration, some drive, some words of wisdom to remind us that impossible is nothing.
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” — Robert F.
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