In case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside the enemy. -Lord Horatio Nelson-

One good thing about dying on active duty is you don’t have to deal with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel-

Papua New Guinea contains over 5% of the world’s biodiversity in less than 1% of the world’s total land area. – AUSAID, Australian Government Overseas Aid-

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it. -Hobbes, “Calvin & Hobbes”-

How can something which seemed so plausible at the time seem so idiotic in retrospect? -Calvin, “Calvin & Hobbes”-

About 97% of the world’s people speak about 4% of the world’s languages; conversely, about 96% of the world’s languages are spoken by about 3% of the world’s people…. Even languages with many thousands of speakers are no longer being acquired by children; at least 50% of the world’s more than six thousand languages are losing speakers. We estimate that about 90% of all languages may be replaced by dominant languages by the end of the 21st century. -UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages, “Language Vitality and Endangerment”-

Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t go to yours. -Yogi Bera-

The Lord’s Supper: it’s not about the menu, but about the guest list. -Fr. Phil Smith-

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -Calvin, “Calvin & Hobbes”-