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Friends! It's a special toast that
I've the pleasure to propose today.
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This is a special occasion -
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the birthday
of our dear friend Gosha.
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- What birthday?
- You didn't tell them?
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It's no big deal.
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Oh, he's a very humble kind of guy.
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I don't think I have to remind you
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of the outstanding virtues
of our extraordinary friend.
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Yes, you do.
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Is there somebody who doesn't know
how talented and clever you are?
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I don't know anything.
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In that case, I propose a toast
in honor of his hands.
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At first glance they're
average human hands,
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but all that is just an illusion.
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Actually, they're golden hands.
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We're in the presence, my friends,
of Master Tool and Die Maker!
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In our Institute there are
scientists and Ph.D's
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who could have retired
ten years ago
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without anyone ever noticing
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that they have gone.
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But when Gosha was out last year
and hospitalized,
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I beg your pardon, ladies,
for getting rather personal,
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only they removed his appendix,
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well, then half of the lab
stopped dead.
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As for me, if I received a doctorate,
at least 70 percent of it comes
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from the apparatus that Gosha
invented.
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And I'm sure
that my opinion is shared