If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.”
“The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.”