The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?