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• Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. -- Simone Weil
• Thousands of engineers can design bridges.....,but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge.
  ....should be built at all. -- Eugene C. Grace...
• Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime
  it is not to be purchased at a lesser price....
• No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.
• Rudnicki's Nobel Principle: Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.
• APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• A celebrity is someone who works hard all during life to attain recognitio
  and once having attained it, and finding out what it really is like, works for the remainder of his life trying to go about unrecognized....
• Gravity: it's not just a great idea... it's the law!