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• Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first.
• You never gain something but that you lose something. -- Thoreau
• If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there because everything else is closed, they have to take you in.
• Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there by car.
• If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
• Imbesi's Law with Freeman's Extension: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty
  but you can get everything dirty without getting anything clean....
• In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
  -- Imbesi's Law of the Conservation of Filth . . ....