I'm loading code that I wrote, because I don't maintain my emacs configuration as a single big pile of elisp used on every system (I grew up in a very heterogenous environment at MIT). The code is safe to load multiple times; I avoid doing so to avoid the overhead, and because in a more complicated past there were include-loops to avoid. At some point in the middle, I built myself a pair of functions enable-quiet/disable-quiet to handle this sort of thing; it sounds like maybe I should dust that off again. FWIW, I wonder if anyone here would recommend building it around load-file or require, and why.
Thanks!
~Chad