Chapter 1. In Search of Excellence the Fundamentals

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

—(Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788–1860)

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