"One can concentrate so closely on the words of a sentence that one thereby misses the meaning. As can happen in any area of life. You must never lose focus on the larger landscape."
I love pavja2 for threatening to have me whipped until my skin was gone, covered in salt, thrown into a sack along with a viper, a monkey, a dog, and a rooster, and drowned in the Tiber river, in that order.