And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. - Frank Herbert

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
-Alma Mavis Taraza

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.