A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. To a Friend 110 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
People are animals.
The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. Life is antagonistic to the living. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.