Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.

Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

“Do me the honor of grasping that I may just possibly know what I’m doing!” I wish to hell I knew what I was doing. Intuition was nothing but the subconscious processing of subliminal clues, he was fairly sure, but I feel it in my bones made too uncomfortably thin a public defense for his actions.