I don’t gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.
Correct or not, he felt himself to be a useless pensioner, an impotent object of charity.
An Englishman and an Arab can learn to think each other’s thoughts, in the other’s language.
A little more money won’t do you any good – because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount. That’s a widely experienced but previously unformulated law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don’t want. Think.
Prof’s purpose was to short him out – but sometimes Prof was too subtle; some people talk better if they breathe vacuum.
It is a region of high plains and of mountains, having limited fertility but esteemed for natural beauty. Its.
Ben m’boy,” Jubal said gently, “as a reporter you are hard-working and sometimes readable.
Need I point out that, despite the old saw about uneasy heads and crowns, it is nevertheless safer to be publicly a king than it is to be a pretender in hiding? A king can usually abdicate to save his neck; a pretender may renounce his pretensions but it makes his neck no safer – less so, in fact; it leaves him naked to his enemies.
Africa and Europe responded more sensibly but differently. Life has never been sacred in Africa and those who went sight-seeing on targets got little bleeding-heart treatment.
If a word for a concept isn’t in a language, then its culture simply doesn’t have the referent the missing word would symbolize.” “Oh, twaddle, Stinky! Animals fight – and ants even conduct wars. Are you trying to tell me they have to have words for it before they can do it?
Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.
What was “grokking”? He had been using the word for a week – and he didn’t grok it.
Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond? While ego crouches inside, aware but never willing to risk it? No, can’t be that; Mike was unafraid – as gaily unafraid as Prof.
Religion is a solace to many people and it is even conceivable that some religion, somewhere, really is Ultimate Truth. But in many cases, being religious is merely a form of conceit.
Whenever the citizens fix their attention on one issue to the exclusion of others, the situation is ripe for scalawags, demagogues, ambitious men on horseback.
Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her husband was away.
You know the classification of cultures into ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian.
That’s the beauty about this business. You don’t have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.