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I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville start

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong. – Ogden Nash, "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours," N

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