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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and
our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for
politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation
stands forever. --Albert EinsteinIf eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically
the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

XLVI



Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,

How to divide the conquest of thy sight;

Mine eye my heart thy picture\'s sight would bar,

My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.

My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--

A closet never pierc\'d with crystal eyes--

But the defendant doth that plea deny,

And says in him thy fair appearance lies.

To side this title is impannelled

A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;

And by their verdict is determined

The clear eye\'s moiety, and the dear heart\'s part:

  As thus; mine eye\'s due is thy outward part,

  And my heart\'s right, thy inward love of heart.

 	--William Shakespeare