Part V, The Merchant Princes, section 2; originally published as “The Big and the Little” in Astounding (August 1944)
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)
“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990)
2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)
Context: America isn't easy. America takes work. Today, February 12, is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. He spoke at Gettysburg about a 'new birth of freedom' because we spent the first four score and seven years of our history with fellow Americans held as slaves. President Healy, his siblings, and his mother among them. We have spent the 150 years since Lincoln spoke making great progress, but along the way treating a whole lot of people of color poorly. And law enforcement was often part of that poor treatment. That's our inheritance as law enforcement and it is not all in the distant past.
“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.”
Speculations (Essays, 1924)
“Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.”
Source: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
