A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. Time's fun when you're having flies. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Wit is a treacherous dart.
It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in ones own back. Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.