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• Pain past is pleasure.
• Scars of pleasure, Scars of pain.
• Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain.
  -- Danilo O'Dell, "Up the Long Ladder", stardate 42823.2...
• The leadership of the privileged has passed away; but it has not been succeeded by the leadership of the eminent.
  We have entered the region of mass effects. -- Sir Winston Churchill...
• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. -- Alan Wa
• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
  -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)...
• Christ-an anarchist who succeeded, that's all -- Andre Malraux
• If ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade.
  A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud. -- Dagny Taggart, "Atlas Shrugged...
• One thing is that, unlike any other Western democracy that I know of, this country has operated since its beginnings with a basic distrust of government.
  We are constituted not for efficient operation of government, but for minimizing the possibility of abuse of power....