Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.
Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity – without.
They flew her,” Matt pointed out. “Sure they did – and my hat’s off to them. But it takes heroes to fly a box as primitive as this and I’m not the hero type.
She might get high enough to crash – no higher.
Back to these young criminals – They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes.
An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking on, flowers and bushes were not – this was a wrongness.
An infantryman can fight only if somebody else delivers him to his zone; in a way I suppose pilots are just as essential as we are.
Admittedly, what he had seen only the day before in this very room was just as intellectually stupefying as these later events – but the emotional impact was something else. A mouse was as much a miracle of biology as was an elephant; nevertheless there was an important difference – an elephant was bigger.
The door dilated.
Jill tried to reswallow her stomach.
Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.
My child, a true-confession story should never be tarnished by any taint of truth.
Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed-to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science-and it means as little to us as a color means to a blind man.
Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.
If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved.
It took you long enough to answer your phone.” “It’s my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don’t answer it at all.
Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there.
He shall rule them with a rod of iron. – Revelations II:25.
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.