George Weston, after all was only a man — poor thing — and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learne… - Isaac Asimov

Así, el mitraísmo celebrado el 25 de diciembre como día del nacimiento del Sol, que era una fiesta popular y alegre. Los cristianos la adoptaron como día del nacimiento del Hijo, y lo convirtieron en la Navidad. El cristianismo adoptó también como propio mucho de lo que en realidad era neoplatónico.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

The elevator was of the new sort that ran by gravitic repulsion. Gaal entered and others flowed in behind him. The operator closed a contact. For a moment, Gaal felt suspended in space as gravity switched to zero, and then he had weight again in small measure as the elevator accelerated upward. Deceleration followed and his feet left the floor. He squawked against his will. The operator called out, "Tuck your feet under the railing. Can't you read the sign?"