The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that...

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is … that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

We don’t have permission to do that. We’re a finding tool, like a digital card catalog.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be...

As a man of civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business,

Defense is superior to opulence.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

We know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views, too.

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank...

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

What we’re doing here is completely in line with the principles of fair use. We think this will help more users discover their books, and buy their books.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

I love the way it works now because it wins (games). We each bring a different aspect to the game and it’s hard to stop us.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

When EAA began the ‘Timeless Voices’ project in 2002, we sought to record the personal histories of a remarkable aviation generation that was passing from our midst. We have saved many stories from people who...

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can...

Give credit to their goalie as he had some good saves.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches

That was probably our best game of the year.

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase...

All money is a matter of belief.

There’s a lot of concern about the dependability of touch-screen voting, for example. Vote by mail may be low tech, but it works.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to...

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of...

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed,...

Christina is truly deserving of this award. She always keeps her cool on the field and leads by example. Her approach to playing exemplifies the meaning of this recognition.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

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