Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the… - Robert A. Heinlein

Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.

Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.

"Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.