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| 201 | It means, my dear friend,... that our language contains many words having a double meaning; and that to pronounce a joke that allows both meanings of a certain word, proves the joker a person of culture and refinement, who has, moreover, a thorough command of the language. | |
| 202 | It seemed that there was no one more glad for peace than those whose job it was to fight for it. | |
| 203 | It takes a mighty fine discipline to hold men together when trouble is creeping up on you. Yet without discipline there is surely disaster. The best discipline comes from within a man, but you'll never get a party of men together where all have it. | |
| 204 | It takes guts and nuts to tackle the various sciences and no matter what his idiot friends think, serious study is not for pussies. As a matter of fact, it is just the opposite. Reading, meditating, gaining understanding and knowledge and staying abreast of what has happened and what is happening on this world's stage is so hard that the effeminate, the little Sally's, the prancing, petite male poodles won't do it; they actually avoid it like Rosie O'Donnell does Jenny Craig. | |
| 205 | It took a few minutes to scroll through the catalog and find the painkiller, though, then a minute or two more convincing the machine that it really did want to take coins, not the credit card I no longer had. I winced at the noise it made coughing up the tube, and the man taking live orders charged me for the cup of water. That was all there was to his mart, just the machine and his window, in a storefront six feet wide. Talk about low overhead. And minimizing shoplifting.
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| 206 | It was always quite obvious why people were advocating one program over another; you could look at people’s name tags and see their institutional affiliation, and predict what they were going to support or attack. To see science twisted so blatantly pained Sax a great deal, and it seemed to him that it distressed everyone there, even the ones doing it, which added to the general irritability and defensiveness. Everyone knew what was going on, and no one liked it, and yet no one would admit it. | |
| 207 | It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. | |
| 208 | It was the first horror movie I'd seen where I didn’t think the people in it would look out for each other," he said. "The way they related to each other frightened me as much as the Alien because usually there's a safe haven of, 'Well, we've got each others' backs.' And they didn't seem like they did. | |
| 209 | It's a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole. | |
| 210 | It's always easier to come up with a rationalization than to change your basic assumptions. | |
| 211 | It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. | |
| 212 | It's just the simple fact that until you think of a thing, you haven't thought of it yet. | |
| 213 | It's nothing to joke about.... A twenty-pound gassy sheep could blow a hole in the ozone. | |
| 214 | It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. | |
| 215 | I've seen what civilization does. Those who have it count themselves better than others, but they are only more corrupt and arrogant, cleverer at finding ways to make others work for them until they become soft and lazy. | |
| 216 | Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away. | |
| 217 | Laughter is poison to fear. | |
| 218 | Let me tell you what that is - a rationalization. It's giving something the appearance of rationality, of reason, when it doesn't have the reality of it. It's finding a way to justify what you want to do, any way. It's finding an excuse from somthing you've already done - a way to make it seem to be good, when it really isn't. That's all you're doing here - tying to find a way to make the wrong things you want to do, seem right. All your arguments really boil down to, 'I want power, so I'm going to take it.' ... | |
| 219 | Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. | |
| 220 | Liberal democracy says that cultural tolerance is essential, but you don’t have to get very far away from liberal democracy for liberal democrats to get very intolerant. | |
| 221 | Life is precious. That's why sacrifice for freedom is rational: it is for life itself and your ability to live it that you act, since life without freedom is the slow, sure death of self-sacrifice to the 'good' of mankind - who is always someone else. Mankind is just a collection of individuals. Why should everyone's life be more important, more precious, more valuable than yours? Mindless mandatory self-sacrifice is insane. | |
| 222 | Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices. | |
| 223 | Like hounds at a feast, people gather round the table of tyranny, eager for tasty scraps tossed on the floor. Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn. Tyrants make the envious comfortable with their greed. | |
| 224 | Look folks, here’s the deal, if we forego the foundations upon which our country was built and start winging it with “progressive” principles instead of our old school traditional values, substituting God's eternal blueprint for some secularist wizard's ideas for a better mañana, then we officially put ourselves in line for historical butt kicking. | |
| 225 | Look ladies, if you enter into a relationship rudderless, like a needy parasite, you will become the slave of whatever host you hitched yourself to. You'll find yourself doing things... changing things... believing things... compromising things... and getting involved in crap you wouldn't even think of doing just because you neeeeeeeeeeed him. | |
| 226 | Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth. | |
| 227 | Man had enemies, that was in the nature of things, but when it comes right down to it his battle to live is with that world out there, the cold, the rain, the wind -the heat, the drought, and the sun-parched pools where water had been.
Hunger, thirst, and cold - man's first enemies, and no doubt his last.
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| 228 | Many a time when a girl gets herself involved with romance she is so busy being in love she doesn't realize what it can lead to. They are all in a rosy sort of glow until suddenly they find out the man they love was great to be in love with, but hell to be married to. | |
| 229 | Math must pay its way with useful things.... Even though mere computation is like bashing down a door because you cannot find the key. | |
| 230 | Mayhap through over-familiarity. We treasure least what we have known too long. | |
| 231 | Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius... | |
| 232 | Mercy is a contingency plan devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. This is about justice. | |
| 233 | Most men are alone.... We come into life alone, we face our worst troubles alone, and we are alone when we die. | |
| 234 | Murder came before food, but there was always time for coffee. | |
| 235 | My fahter was a soldier and he always told me a good soldier never stood when he could site, and never sat when he could lie down, and ate whenever there was food. | |
| 236 | My father always claimed that a league wasn't really a unit of measurement at all, just a way for farmers to attach numbers to their rough guesses. | |
| 237 | My foot swings directly up where my jaw used to be and I become perhaps the first person in the history of man to kick himself in his own uvula. | |
| 238 | My name is Marillion. | |
| 239 | Neither one of us had much trust in the peaceful qualities of our fellowmen. Seems to me most of the folks doing all the talk about peace and giving the other fellow the benefit of the doubt were folks setting back to home in cushy chairs with plenty of grub around and the police nearby to protect them. Back there, men would set down safe of an evening and write about how cruel the poor Indian was being treated out west. They never come upon the body of a friend who had been staked out on an ant hill or had a fire built on his stomach, nor had they stood off a charge of Indians. | |
| 240 | 'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there be a man in her line of sight.' | |
| 241 | Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness... | |
| 242 | News came today of the withdrawal of Gen. W. S. Key from the command of the 45th Division. He has been given some overseas assignment as a palliative.... The home folks will say that Key got a bad deal because he was a National Guard Major General. But the fact is that Key did not study and prepare himself tactically in the crucial years before the emergency. Some of my old comrades will think me disloyal to my ex-commander, but the general staff knows what it is doing - and it will not send our sons into hell behind division leaders it is not satisfied with. | |
| 243 | Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is {+bullshit}, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds. | |
| 244 | No data yet.... It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. | |
| 245 | No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trouble, he never stepped into a street and began the gunman's walk without the full knowledge that he might be a shade too slow, that some small thing might disturb him just long enough! | |
| 246 | No one ought to kill something... and not know it. | |
| 247 | No... he doesn't understand. Down here... a man is admired for daring to face another armed man with a pistol and for settling his quarrels bravely. It isn't a killing that is admired, it is the courage to fight for what you believe. You won't be admired as the man who killed Cullen Baker, you will be despised as someone who murdered a sleeping man.
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| 248 | Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth? | |
| 249 | Nothing gained without cost is valued. I was reminded of that fact only today. She was the one we buried. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it, so that all will value and preserve it. | |
| 250 | Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands. | |