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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.
• The most delicate component will be the one to fall. -- Selective Gravity, Klipstein's Corollary
• But happily to most of us the great brown slabs bening over into space
  he lines and curves of the wind-moulded cornice, the delicate undulations of the fissured snow, are old and trusted friends, ever luring us to health and fun and laughter, and enabling us to bid a sturdy defiance to all the ills that time and life oppose....