Robert Green Ingersoll, US author, lawyer, politician and orator, known as "the great agnostic" was born on this date in 1833. 10 quotes:
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
We rise by lifting others.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends.
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
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