Censorship is never logical but, like cancer, it is dangerous to ignore it when it shows up. - Robert A. Heinlein

On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Serbia, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated. He was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, an otherwise useless piece of royalty, and to this day I have never been able to understand why this event could cause Germany to invade Belgium a month later.

I found out a long time ago that you have to take some chances in this life. Otherwise you are just a vegetable, headed for the soup pot.

Population pressure works much like a rising river. You can put up dikes or levees, but the day comes when the river has to go somewhere.