In a message dated 11/11/2009 5:03:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: The answer to the question in the subject line is none of them. Heinrich Heine said that one starts with burning books and ends by burning people. --- There's also my grandmother. She says, he who plays with fire, wets his bed. Is there cross-generic or cross-cultural evidence for this? JLS