“Abraham Lincoln once told a story about a blacksmith who stuck an iron bar in the coals until it was red hot. Then on the anvil, he pulled at the iron intending to make a sword. He was dissatisfied with the end product and put it back into the hot coals determined this time to make a garden tool. Once again, he was not pleased with what he had; therefore he tried making a horse shoe. That too did not please his fancy.

“As a last resort, he put the iron bar in the hot coals one more time. He removed it from the fire wondering if there was anything he could make from it. Deciding that there was nothing he merely stuck it into a barrel of water. At the resulting hiss, he said, ‘Well, at least I made a fizzle out of it.’” [1]

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