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From: Machine Design
Date: 20000601
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A particularly lazy crow spent his days sitting in a tree doing nothing all day. A small rabbit hopping by happened to look up and see him.

"Can I sit around like you do all day and do nothing?" the rabbit asked.

"Sure, why not," the crow answered. So the rabbit sat down on the ground below the crow and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared from the brush, jumped on the rabbit, and ate it. The moral of the story: To sit and do nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

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