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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 This fortune brought to you by:
 $FreeBSD$
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 			-- Gifts for Children --
 
@@ -7777,6 +7778,11 @@ in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary
 qualifications, that field's employment market is glutted.
 		-- Marguerite Emmons
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+"If you already know what recursion is, just remember the answer.
+Otherwise, find someone who is standing closer to Douglas Hofstadter
+than you are; then ask him or her what recursion is."
+		-- Andrew Plotkin
+%
 If you are a fatalist, what can you do about it?
 		-- Ann Edwards-Duff
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