A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Shipping by water is cheaper than by rail, which is cheaper than by truck.
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.
I have a vanilla chai latte every morning, which I usually follow with an oatmeal raisin cookie and eggs for breakfast.
L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.
I played 'Mortal Kombat' competitively in arcades. Played for money at 10, hustling the 20-year-olds. Five bucks on whoever wins. Which, at 10 years old, is real money.
I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.
