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"Every man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain


"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
Helen Keller


"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Pablo Picasso


"Most of the change we think we see in life - Is due to truths being in and out of favor."
Robert Frost

...Prompted by watching the Dragon's Den (TV1, Monday, 8.30)

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