To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. - Seneca the Younger

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If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

Seneca the Younger

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

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