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• To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star.
  As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. -- Confuciu...
• Again, our observations of the stars make it evident, not only that the earth is circular, but also that it is a circle of no great size.
  For quite a small change of position to south or north causes a manifest alteration of the horizon....
• A fool is like all other men as long as he remains silent. Danish Proverb
• When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all.
  -- Confucius (born 551 B.C.)...
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. -- Confuciu
• When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop
  iped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty....
• When all else is lost, the future still remains.
• moking clover n. [ITS] A display hack originally due to Bill Gosper.
  Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in such a way that every pixel struck has its color incremented....