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"We admire these leaders as fellow citizens who have the courage of their convictions and are willing to do the very difficult and unpopular work of living up to principles of freedom and democracy rather than accepting the expedient or popular," says Wheeler, who named the beetles and wrote the recently published monograph describing the new slime-mold beetle species while a professor at Cornell.
This is exactly what I would say to the press if I were in this guy's position and wanted to make my friends roar with laughter in response to such deadpan sarcasm.
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