Xylem/main Function - Upwards Water Transport

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    “The main trouble [with this country] is there are too many people who don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast.”
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    “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
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    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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