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• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. -- John Galsworthy
• All beginnings are difficult.
• The sages put great stock in saying that every ending is truly a beginning
  or every beginning an ending, or insisting that there are no endings or beginnings, or remarking that there is nothing new, and we are doomed to endlessly repeat ourselves....
• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy
• An Animal that knows who it is, one that has a sense of his own identity, is a discontented creature, doomed to create new problems for himself for the duration of his stay on this planet.
  Since neither the mouse nor the chip knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery....
• There is just one rule for politicians all over the world
  Don't say in Power what you said in Opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible....