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• MATHEMATICIANS do it as a finite sum of an infinite series.
• Realistic leaders accept occasional disappointment as part of the job and make the best of it.
• Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Two in the Campagna, xii...
• Never accept brownies from a proctologist.
• PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
  I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite- the ideal made real. -- Carlyle...
• Homer: Oh, where did I lose 'em? I'll never wiggle my bare butt in public again.
  Lisa: I'd like to believe that this time. I really would. -- Hope springs eternal, "Rosebud...
• I never lose! Often run away, but I never lose....
• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
  Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land....