If News Is Not Really News Unless

Just As There Is No Loss Of Basic Energy In The Universe, So No Thought Or Action Is Without Its Effects, Present Or Ultimate, Seen Or Unseen, Felt Or Unfelt.

What Was Significant About The Laughter . . . Was Not Just The Fact That It Provides Internal Exercise For A Person . . . Form Of Jogging For The Innards, But That It Creates A Mood In Which The Other Positive Emotions Can Be Put To Work, Too.

A Human Being Fashions His Consequences As Surely As He Fashions His Goods Or His Dwelling. Nothing That He Says, Thinks Or Does Is Without Consequences.

The Main Trouble With Despair Is That It Is Self-fulfilling.

The Justification For Those Actions Was That We Were Living In A Very Hard, Predatory, Cloak-and-dagger World And That The Only Way To Deal With A Totalitarian Enemy Was To Intimidate Him. The Trouble With This Theory Was That While We Live In A World Of Plot And Counterplot, We Also Live In A World Of Cause And Effect. Whatever The Cause For The Decision To Legitimize And Regularize Deceit Abroad, The Inevitable Effect Was The Practice Of Deceit At Home.