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• Getting anything done around here reminds me of elephants mating
  - it's done at a very high level - there's lots of trumpeting about it - it takes two years to see any results....
• He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion.
  -- Mick Farren, _When Gravity Fails_...
• He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion.
  -- Mick Farren, "When Gravity Fail...
• Effort x Time = Constant A. Given a large initial time to do something the initial effort will be small.
  B. As time goes to zero, effort goes to infinity. Corollary...
• The are hosts of dopes here, and it is not good for my blood pressure
  uch inane things are said and seriously discussed that I get into arguments outside the formal sessions whenever anyone asks me a question or starts to tell me about his "work....
• Sometimes it takes great effort to discover that life was meant to be effortless. -- Anonymou
• It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry Jame
• A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
  Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort....
• The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great deal of money.
  The woman who gives herself takes all your time. -- Balzac...