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• And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), "The Republic", Book II. 369C...
• To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
• Any general system law will have at least two particular applications.
  -- The Law of Happy Particularities -- Gerald Weinberg...
• If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
  -- Immanuel Hermass von Fichte...
• Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon.
• Mother is the invention of necessity.
• Necessity is a Mother -- no invention!