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• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that balances are correct.
  -- Princess Irulan, "Manual of Maud'Dib...
• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
  -- Frank Herbert, Dune, Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irula...
• Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in which man can indulge.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), "The Bum...
• The most delicate component will be dropped. -- Rosenfield's Regre
• It balances! It balances! Run the bloody paychecks.
• In the beginning, t=0, where t is time.
• Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• The most delicate component will be the one to fall. -- Selective Gravity, Klipstein's Corollary