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• Scars take time to heal.
• God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. -- Elbert Hubbard
• He jests at scars who never felt a wound. -- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2
• Pain past is pleasure.
• One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable sta
  and the world will be better for this. -- Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream...
• Gashed with honourable scars, Low in Glory's lap they lie
  Though they fell, they fell like stars, Streaming splendour through the sky....
• He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But, soft!
  what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun....
• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures.
  All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts....
• hacked up adj. Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass).
  Not all programs that are hacked become `hacked up'...