"It is unlikely that we will ever know what caused the transmissions to cease, but it is time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which he emerged, " he told the news agency.

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If we don't challenge them, how will we ever know that they can't do it?

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We will never, ever know why they did that to him.

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But we still don't know if we will ever see him again.

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No doubt we will all soon know much more about this than we ever wanted to know.

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So when things do go right -- and they do more often than the world will ever know -- we ought to celebrate your success.

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We don't know if it will create jobs - we do know it will destroy this peace of this beautiful countryside for ever.

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And we know that the success of every American will be tied more closely than ever before to the level of education that they achieve.

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"Given what we know about the youth bulge in the population, Millennials and Hispanics will become ever more important voting blocs in upcoming presidential elections, " Taylor said.

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This application might be the future as we've always imagined it, but until it arrives, it's impossible to know if it will ever dominate the present.

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