The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’—and every one of them translates literally as resentment, in various degrees. Would that English had the same built-in honesty on this point! I...
The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table tapping to the superiority of their own children - has never been plumbed. Faith strikes m...
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but.
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: Of course it is none of my business, but -- is to place a period after the word but. Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a pe...
The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew th...
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.
The way to live a long time—oh, a thousand years or more—is something between the way a child does it and the way a mature man does it. Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worr...
There can be circumstances when it’s just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled...
There is a misconception, geocentric and anthropomorphic, common to the large majority the the earthbound, which causes them to visualize a planetary system stereoscopically. The mind's eye sees a sun...
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader—when you come right to it, it’s a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
There’s precious little choice. There’s always a choice! This one is a choice between ‘bad’ and ‘worse—’which is a difference much more poignant than that between ‘good’ and ‘better.
They insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him.The notion that the effort has to be their own, and t...
They want to use him, make him geek.
Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to...
Thou art God.
We’re simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what’s possible.
What is ‘truth’? Mike asked. (What is Truth? asked a Roman judge, and washed his hands of a troublesome question. Jubal wished that he could do likewise.)
He does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
Hurry was not a concept that could be symbolized in the Martian language and therefore must be presumed to be unthinkable. Speed, velocity, simultaneity, acceleration, and other mathematical abstracti...
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