Well, I’ll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn’t upset people quite so much.
We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets
Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded—here and there, now and then—are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised...
This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they...
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...
They were all three amazingly beautiful; they were also amazingly good secretaries. In Harshaw’s opinion the principle of least action required that utility and beauty be combined.
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...
These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.
There wasn’t any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end.
There is no safety this side of the grave.
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 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...
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!
The second point I want to make is that you are right; the boy does indeed have to learn human customs. He must be taught to take off his shoes in a mosque and to wear his hat in a synagogue and to co...
The problem with dictatorships—as I read somewhere recently—and with poisonous ideologies, too, is that they are like sharks. They must keep moving forward or die. What caused their aggression is not...
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 Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just ha...