Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getti...
A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.
In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits.
Jessie rummaged through her purse for the necessary equipment. If there were one thing, Baley had once said solemnly, that had resisted mechanical improvement since medieval times, it was a woman's pu...
Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself—w...
There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.
We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we hav...
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might b...
We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.''For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of...
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
What do you require to exchange your ideas for mine? You think my convictions are for sale? Why not? came the cold response. Isn’t that your business, buying and selling? Only at a profit, said Mallow...
What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb; and once left, it could not be re-entered.
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know.
You are the only one responsible for your own wants.
You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.
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