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• That which goes contrary to the prevailing taste is, for me, the most precious of things.
  ... Whatever is scorned, despised or not understood by the society in which one lives has prospects for the future....
• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
  -- Washington Irving...
• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• It's beautiful. It's the most awe-inspiring sight I have ever seen.
  Giver of life, mother of us all...hey guys, look what I smuggled aboard!...
• Only when you are alone does the house make those strange noises, which is why no one else has ever heard them.
• Is this acceptable?
• The burden which is well borne becomes light. -- Ovid
• All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers.
  No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. -- Richard Lamm...
• What has reality ever done for ME?? It made misery real!