There is nothing more disgraceful for any sportsperson than to be accused of murky stuff like match-fixing or spot-fixing.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
In general, a film's delay is disheartening for actors, but it's harder on the director and the producer who have been on the project for longer than anyone else. While actors move on to other projects, the film's makers don't.
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.
In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Global companies can raise capital much easier than local Indian companies can because they have access to many more markets than we do, and this ends up distorting competition.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
