George Burns, the US actor and comedian, was born on this date in 1896. Here are some one liners and wisecracks from him.
- Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family - in another city.
- You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- It is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
- Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
- It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
- The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
- I'd rather be over the hill than under it.
- Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
- Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
- No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
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Secrets and Skies
Scientist Desi Troyes has developed a nuclear bomb to counter the ever present threat of an asteroid hitting the planet. When Ward signs the order giving the go ahead for a nuclear test on the remote Bird Island, he has no inkling of Troyes' real agenda, and that he has signed the death warrants of millions of people.
Although the island should have been evacuated, there are people still there: some from the distant continent of Classica; protesters opposed to the bomb test; and Innovians who will not, or cannot, use their communication devices.
Power Blaster knows he must stop the bomb from hitting the island. He also knows it may be the last thing he ever does.
Meanwhile in Innovia, Ward and his staff gather to watch the broadcast of the test. Nobody, not even Troyes himself, has any idea what is about to happen.
Part One of The Raiders Trilogy.
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