The likely consequences of this coming age of uncertainty - when a growing number of people will have good reason to fear job loss and long-term redundancy - will be a return to dependency upon the...
We have entered an age of insecurity - economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.
What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.
The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how...
He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.
What the war did to dreamers
The sky drops silver threads of sleet.
His daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That's how it feels right now,...
The clanging of the cart recedes. Marie - Laure
Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club
My uncle is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.
Striking an average of observations taken at different times - rejecting those timid estimates that gave the object a length of 200 feet, and ignoring those exaggerated views that saw it as a mile...
"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"
"Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the center of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the...
For me, school had been a Darwinian exercise. A daily attack of ridicule, abuse, and isolation.
I found myself wondering how the Empire had the technology to make long-distance holographic phone calls between planets light-years apart, and yet no one had figured out how to make a...
The cake is a lie.
And I had OASIS. My life wasn’t that bad after all. Or at least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to ease the loneliness I had found myself living in.
That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super - powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have...
Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.
You're going to hate to hear this, but you're too young to get it. Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change...
They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place
I had spoken to the universe, and the universe hadn't given a damn.
It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.
and he wreaked havoc among the buttered toast as he said it.
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3...
There were men and women who appeared as fluid as ghosts, they could have been attending a burial out of curiosity, merely to recall how it had been when they were buried.
Hope, only hope, nothing more, reaches a point where there is nothing left but it; it is then that we discover that we still have everything.
Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us.
The book of Psalms has been and still is the irreplaceable devotional guide, prayer book, and hymnal of the people of God. The Hebrew title is "the book of praises" {tehillim}.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...