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    The software says what blends will work better for your fields and crops. So instead of five piles of fertilizer and saying, 'This goes on that field and that goes on this field,' this allows for one custom fertilizer on all the fields.

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    I think one of the take-home messages is that variation can be created rapidly with just a few naturally occurring mutations.

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    We are also supposed to get two more trucks with ice and water today, ... But I'm crossing my fingers because I don't know that that will happen since no one from FEMA or MEMA or anybody has bothered to check on the town of Richton. I know the Gulf Coast is devastated, but if we don't take care of our elderly they are going to die and then our town will be devastated.

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    As we have made clear in the past, there is no safe haven for terrorists, ... Every conceivable effort will be made to hold accountable all of those involved in murdering the more than 250 civilians in Africa.

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    We wanted to be up to par. That's one of the things Scotty taught us over the years. We've got to play together to have success.

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    There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

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    Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

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