And when horny, well-paid American flyboys are dropped into a culture defined half by cannibals and half by Frenchmen, you get a hell of a civilian economy.

What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

If money is a science, then it is a dark science... it has gone on developing... by its own rules

We are the people of Misr, the old woman rasped. Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.

Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship, they create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These...

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

If you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the...

In truth Mr Jonas Silk was as niggardly as he was jealous, and my sister Beatrice had as much interest in Kansas as she did in the czar of all the Russias, and so my brother Mr. Horace Silk worked out...

The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high...

The truth is that torture creates the torturers

I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night. Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea.

I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and...

I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper...

both of us hope and trust that our daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of our lives.

Miss Kate, though twenty, was dressed with a simplicity which American girls would do well to imitate

"Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me... " "As you do us... " interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are"

It takes so little to make a child happy that it is a pity, in a world so full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

WITCHES LIVED AND WERE BURNED LONG BEFORE the development of modern medical technology. The great majority of them were lay healers serving the peasant population, and their suppression marks one of...

According to a recent poll {... } 94% of Americans agree that people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have...

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

For all our mythologizing, the margins can be painful and some people are there because they have no choice.

It struck me that perhaps the defining feature of being drafted into the black race was the inescapable robbery of time, because the moments we spent readying the mask, or readying ourselves to accept...