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• The one who has the gold makes the rules. -- The Golden Rule of Arts and Science
• THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The one who has the gold makes the rules.
• The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: He who has the gold makes the rules.
• The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
• Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• RUBBISH, n. Worthless matter, such as the religions, philosophies, literatures, arts and sciences of the tribes infesting the regions lying due south from Boreaplas.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use.
  -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto i, Stanza 40...