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• Nothing is finer for the purpose of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.
  -- Kea...
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Circle
• Life is like a bagel. It's delicious when it's fresh and warm, but often it's just hard.
  The hole in the middle is its great mystery, and yet it wouldn't be a bagel without it....
• Straight down the crooked lane, And all round the square.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- A Plain Directio...
• Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form.
  The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same....
• No relationship with what is harmful; There is no blame in this.
  If one remains conscious of difficulty, One remains without blame....
• Chemistry is physics without thought; mathematics is physics without purpose.
• On the road, ZIPPY is a pinhead without a purpose, but never without a POINT.
  -- Zippy the Pinhead...