A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.