On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ten thousand reflections
hide the true gem.
-- Greg Lauver
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy, 1962
When asked what surprised him most about humanity, the Dalai Lama answered "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then, he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.
No study will ever be done on how many accidents are the result of driving under the influence of coffee. -- Greg Lauver
I asked life, "Why you are so difficult?" Life smiled and replied, "Because you never appreciate easy things."
Gettin' old ain't for sissies. -- a neighbor
What color is a chameleon on a mirror?
What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
The world doesn't want you to know. They want you to believe. But there is a big difference between believing and knowing. Should you believe in yourself or should you know yourself? -- Prem Rawat
It is impossible to be what others think you are. It is entirely possible to be yourself. -- Greg Lauver
Most of us know that appearances can be deceiving. This leaves us no excuse for judging people by their appearance, or being fooled by it. -- Greg Lauver
Imagination, like reason, is only a tool. We should not become so enamored with one of our faculties that we abandon the rest. -- Greg Lauver
I tried thinking outside the box. A big wind came up, and now I can't find my box. -- Greg Lauver
There are no bigger shareholders than the people who invest a third of their lives in your company. -- Greg Lauver
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill
A government, which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries, to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat, French, Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C..)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end, and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. -- Edward Langley, artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson
I was put on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind that I will never die.
I don't worship Truth. Experience has simply shown it's the best tool in the box.
There are no degrees of correctness in a creative act. Creativity flees the constraints of convention. -- Greg Lauver
If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to fix it?
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow. -- Programmer's Guidebook
This phone call isn't really being monitored for training purposes.
The other lane always goes faster.
Never wrestle with a pig, you'll only get dirty and the pig likes it.
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. -- Greg Lauver
Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law.
Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
The search for "life as we know it" is doomed by definition.
96.37% of all statistics are made up. -- Kevin D. Quitt
Religions are like swimming pools, most of the noise comes from the shallow end. -- Bishop Shelby Spong
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably a wise investment.
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes.
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation. -- Herbert Spencer
While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. -- Greg Lauver
When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer. -- Greg Lauver
There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
When the duty itself is dishonorable, it cannot be performed with honor.
Many problems can be solved simply by not contributing to them.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom. -- Rainier Maria Rilke
Truth is food. If you withold that food, the people will starve, and you cannot blame them for stretching what little provisions they have.
Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Space exists so that everything doesn't happen to you.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Eric Hoffer
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -- Gen. Omar Bradley
To those who don't have to do the work, All Things Are Possible.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein
It is said that "great minds think alike." What a disappointment. I had hoped they would think differently. -- Greg Lauver
"Zero Tolerance" equals zero intelligence.
When you have come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
The most precious thing we have is life; yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
How could someone know that we only use about 10% of our brain capacity? -- David A. Morton, M.D.
I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
There is no justice. There is just us. -- Greg Lauver
When the last tree has been cut; when the last fish has been caught; when the last river has been poisoned; only then will you find that you cannot eat money. -- Cree Indian prophecy
Our environment is failing because a crucial element has been removed from it. That crucial element is us. -- Greg Lauver
Most of us are pretty typical. -- David Dunning, Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert A. Heinlein
If scientists can be counted on for anything, it's for creating unintended consequences. -- Michael Dougan
To err is human. To blame, divine.
The early bird may get the worm, but the late mouse gets the cheese.
The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Help fight continental drift!
Tomorrow will be like today, only more so.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
Life is worthless, just as worth is lifeless. -- Greg Lauver
They never did make 'em like they used to!
Cleanliness is next to impossible.
I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. -- Gandhi
He who laughs, lasts.
Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess. -- Buddha
Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones.
Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.
The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
The only thing which is truly supernatural is our insistence upon confining our awareness to the world of daily life.
If perceivable reality was a jigsaw puzzle made up of 40 million pieces, we humans create our image of reality out of only 40 pieces. -- Robert Morning Sky
In order to be, never try to seem.
There are only two kinds of people: (1) people who think there are only two kinds of people, and (2) people who don't.
Time began when you were born. It will end when you die.
If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
Tell the truth and run. -- Yugoslavian proverb
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -- Oscar Wilde
To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. -- Chinese proverb
Anything that is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Mankind did not create the web of life, he is merely a strand in it; and whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -- Chief Seattle
If you lose your mind, forget it.
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
If God had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way.
You are no bigger than the things that annoy you.
If you blame others for your failures, then credit them with your successes.
We trained hard; but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn that later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. -- Petronius Arbiter, 66 A.D.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Here Lies The World's Healthiest Man -- RIP
God has no religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstein
Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God. -- Lenny Bruce
There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thank God kids never mean well. -- Lily Tomlin
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. -- H. L. Mencken
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands. -- Spanish Proverb
Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.
We all have the strength to endure the misfortune of others. -- La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. -- Andrew Young
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -- Thomas Alva Edison
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok
We're all in this alone. -- Lily Tomlin
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navajo saying
At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. -- Jane Wagner
All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw
Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. -- Voltaire
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -- Ambrose Bierce
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer
If you talk to God you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Dr. Thomas Szasz
History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. -- Leo Tolstoy
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. -- Jeremy Bentham
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. -- Will Rogers
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg. -- Anatole France
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -- Jonathan Swift
I have only a flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. -- Denis Diderot
War is, at first, the hope one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off. -- Karl Kraus
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. -- Edmund Burke
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance. -- V. V. Rozanov
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
The animal needing something knows how much it needs; the man does not. -- Democritus of Abdera
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. -- Emily Bronte
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please. -- Machiavelli
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one. -- Marcus Aurelius
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. -- Sydney Smith
I have learned this at least by my experiments; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The important thing is this; to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -- Charles du Bos
We do not stop playing because we grew old. We grow old because we stopped playing.
If you steal something small you are a petty thief; but if you steal millions, you are a gentleman of society. -- Greek Proverb
If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is not good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in mathematics. -- Bertrand Russell
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. -- Jack London
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. -- Anatole France
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties. -- Abraham Myerson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian. -- Heywood Broun
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln, 1859 letter
The tree is known by its fruit. -- Bible, Matthew 12:33
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
A hungry man is not a free man. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer. -- Marcus Aurelius
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao Tzu
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. -- Saint Augustine
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. -- Ivan Illich
Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. -- Albert Camus
The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere. -- John Mortimer
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -- Pierre Corneille
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. -- Dolores Ibarruri
"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjoeld
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. -- John Cotton Dana
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. -- Desmond Tutu
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally; he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. -- George Eliot
Everything in war is barbaric; but the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. -- Ellen Key
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad
When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my color. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my color. -- Frantz Fanon
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. -- G.K. Chesterton
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. -- John Stuart Mill
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. -- J. William Fulbright
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift
What experience and history teach is this: that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. -- G.W.F. Hegel
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington
Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. -- James Cardinal Gibbons
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. -- Thomas Gray
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. -- Alexander Hamilton
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. -- Michael Harrington
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H.L. Mencken
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -- John F. Kennedy
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. -- Marya Mannes
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. -- Margaret Mead
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "This fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare. -- Sun Tzu
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. -- Tennessee Williams
To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. -- Oscar Wilde
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is not so common. -- Voltaire
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde
When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? -- Edith Evans
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. -- Abigail Van Buren
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? -- Adlai Stevenson
Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies. -- Lord Jakobovits
To be adult is to be alone. -- Jean Rostand
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men. -- Albert Einstein
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. -- Chief Seattle
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. -- Rita Mae Brown
Truth never damages a cause that is just. -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Is there something in trade that dessicates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business. -- John Jay Chapman
Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. -- Christopher Lasch
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. -- Christopher Lasch
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. -- Edmund Burke
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain. -- Eugenie Clark
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -- John F. Kennedy
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world; and never will. -- Mark Twain
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. -- D. H. Lawrence
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. -- Bess Myerson
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be uneconomic you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. -- E. F. Schumacher
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. -- Epicurus
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. -- Mark Twain
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I shall pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, or dumb animal, let me do it now. Let me not deter it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. -- John Galsworthy