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• Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
  -- Fedor Dostoevsky...
• TROI: I feel pain, GREAT pain ... RIKER: Glad you liked it.
• Great men are not always wise. Biblical Proverb
• The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution.
  It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them....