Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same
place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as
fast as that. -- Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass" (1871)
place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as
fast as that. -- Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass" (1871)
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