Lessen and tone down the language

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 				When I wrote the original version of the utility I wasn't then aware of many other
 				free web-based systems that were doing something similar.  Now I see that there are
 				a number of <a href='resources.php#nutritionsites'>other sites</a> that have a very
-				complete set of tools.  However, in my opinion, virtually all of them have a major
-				flaw: they try to be everything to everyone, and thereby end up being overly
-				complicated and convoluted.  An old axiom comes to mind: "You can please some of the
-				people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't please
-				all the people all the time."
+				complete set of tools.
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 			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				Consider a program like Microsoft Word, a very powerful word processor.  I'd be
-				willing to bet that about 90% of the users of Word use than 10% of it's features, so
-				in effect I suspect that the majority of the program is just bulk and useless cruft
-				for the majority of consumers.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				Personally, I subscribe to the notion that less is more.  I am a long-time free
-				software user, and especially the operating systems known as
-				<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux'>GNU/Linux</a> and
-				<a href='http://freebsd.org'>FreeBSD</a>.
-				These systems are based on an older operating system called
-				<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix'>Unix</a>.  Generally speaking, in the
-				Unix world, one of the design principles has been to write a lot of small programs
-				that do a particular job very well and then to chain those elegant tools together to
-				accomplish complex tasks.  The other methodology is to write a small number of
-				programs that do a large number of things, but only do each task marginally well.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				What does this have to do with a nutrition database, you ask?  Well, the goal of
-				this system is to do a few things very well.  Namely, to give you concise and
-				trustworthy data about certains food.  There are already lots of other tools
-				available to do other nutrition related things, and I don't see a need to reinvent
-				the wheel here.  Those other tools are only a few keystrokes and clicks away.  As an
-				example, at present I have no intention adding a BMI calculator.  There are already
-				countless <a href='http://www.google.com/search?q=bmi+calculator'>other sites</a>
-				with fine BMI calculators, and to add yet another here would simply clutter up the
-				interface and add no real value.  This is what Favorites and Bookmarks are for in
-				your browser.
-			</div>
-
-			<div class='standardMargins'>
-				What this means from a user perspective is that the intention is that interface
-				should never get in your way.  You should never have to hunt around for what you
-				need.  You shouldn't have to sift through mounds of extraneous and unwanted data
-				and tools to find what you want.
+				This tool aims to be a free and open basis upon which to build a community based
+				nutrition tool that is totally open to the public.  Anyone can take the code that
+				runs this site and make it better or extend it.
 			</div>
 
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