A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Dwight D. Eisenhower , Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. (unknown)