My hope is that Justice Thomas's latest fusillade will not divert us from that path.
"We cannot afford to have civil wars over issues that might divide us and divert us from that path.
The drift to low privacy is viewed as a path-dependent process where future options are dramatically reduced: "We can't divert from the path we walk on this regard" (male, 51 60 years, Israel).
I'm not somebody who believes that it's all a tale of oppression, but I don't think that anybody who diverts from the path of Western civilization at some point is going off the cliff, or off the trail, and into the woods.
"My experience of this is that sometimes there appears to be a blockage or you get diverted from the path you want to take," Mr Blair said.
But he was diverted from this path by falling madly in love.
What is being referred to is the interpretation of Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, who saw his fellow Muslims being diverted from the path of Islam as it had been delivered by the prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Building your own business or embarking on a side project or trying a whole new career doesn't mean you're diverting from the path of certainty and into a life of the reckless unknown.
According to the Trinity Alumni Register, "a more deserving appointment to this coveted place [Oxford] was probably never made". At Trinity, Bagley, who worked in order to pay his tuition, edited the yearbook, took part in athletics and debate, and became "a man of great popularity". Bagley was diverted from the path to Oxford, right into World War I; he served as a captain in the Army.
You're not alone if you've been diverted from the path toward pursuing your dreams or even figuring out what you want to be when you grow up.
But we know, from our fathers and ancestors, no generation has escaped the test which is before us now, it morphs to different types of challenges but it is always threatening, always dire, and always has great consequences, and it falls upon us now, to change course, to change course, and divert ourselves from the path that some of our elites, elected and unelected, are taking us.
