The foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size… - Tom Flanagan

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The foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size of many things used in daily life. In contrast, the metre, the kilogram, and the litre are all rather large, and the centimetre, the gram, and the millilitre rather small, for many practical uses.

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Thomas Eugene Flanagan (born March 5, 1944) is a political scientist at the University of Calgary and a conservative political activist. He has served as an advisor and ideological mentor to Canada's current Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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