“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
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“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
52, Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt.
Aphorism 52 in Unpublished Works 1916-1918 http://www.kafka.org/index.php?unpub1916_1918
Variant translations:
In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world.
In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.
“Never bet against the United States of America”
"Beyond a joke: the ones that went too far" http://politics.guardian.co.uk/redbox/story/0,9029,1157599,00.html, Guardian Unlimited, 27 February 2004.
comment on both the Conservative Party leader William Hague and the abortion debate at a Labour Party conference fringe meeting, 1997.
Speech to Parliament, 1930s; quoted by Bernard Levin in The Pendulum Years (1970).
Preface to Idishé Bibliotek, i. 1890.
Analysis of why the big multi-national recording companys did not embrace downloading of songs legally on the Internet for many years. thestrippodcast.com (September 9, 2006)
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“I believe churches used to call it original sin,” Rutherford agreed, looking crafty. “But what does it matter, if it serves to make him a better man?”
Source: The Life of the World to Come (2004), Chapter 5, “Another Meeting” (p. 97)