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As Frederick Mackeson, a British colonial officer, observed of the tribesmen in 1850, “their fidelity is measured by the length of the purse of their seducer, and they transfer their obedience according to the liberality of the donation.”

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Scrum, together with weeks-long sprints can help teams move to more frequent shipping, so long as this frequency is not above the sprint length.

Where did anybody get the idea that you ought to stay arm's length from politics?

That's because the foveal part of your eye, which is the high-resolution part, is only about the size of your thumbnail held at arms length.

They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them."

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