Nitpyck's the name and nitpicking's the game. I believe in simple declarative sentences making simple declarations.

Edward R. Dewey: "I believe the future is completely knowable - but not, of course, by human beings."

Montaigne: "Don't bother to prepare for your death because, when the time comes, you will know how to do it well enough."

Donald B. Redford: "We should be wise to reject the application of the adjective of "Biblical" to "history" or "archeology". The only meaning I can understand in such a use is allomorphic for an adjectival genitive: Biblical archeology signifies the the recovery and analysis of papyri and manuscripts of the Biblical books; and Bibilical history the history of the work itself from its initial appearance in post-Exilic times. _______

"The Rosicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist." Umberto Ecco Foulcault's Pendulum p200

__________ Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora ____________ I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people yeas but any religion based on a single ... well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human raceas, say, Confucianism... Gore Vidal 1988