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251Life 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.
252Like Alice I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast.
253Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast.
254Like 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.
255Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
256Look 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.
257Look 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.
258Look 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.
259Look, we'd get along much faster if we knew what we were doing.
260Many 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.
261Math must pay its way with useful things.... Even though mere computation is like bashing down a door because you cannot find the key.
262Mayhap through over-familiarity. We treasure least what we have known too long.
263Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius...
264Mercy 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.
265Mind you, I'm not wild about computers myself, but they are a tool. If you have a tool, it's stupid not to use it.
266Murder came before food, but there was always time for coffee.
267My dear Brigadier, it's no Earthly good asking me a lot of questions.
268My dear Steven, history sometimes gives us a terrible shock, and that is because we don't quite fully understand. Why should we? After all, we're too small to realise its final pattern. Therefore don't try and judge it from where you stand. I was right to do as I did. Yes, that I firmly believe.
269My 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.
270My 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.
271My name is Marillion.
272Neither 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.
273'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there be a man in her line of sight.'
274Never mind. I'll have him completely bewildered by the time I'm finished.
275Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness...
276Ninety-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.
277No data yet.... It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
278No dictatorship has ever survived that did not institute censorship.
279No 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!
280No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.
281No... 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.
282Nonsense, time for a quick adventure then back for tea.
283Nonsense. Time for a quick adventure, then back for tea.
284Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth?
285Nothing 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.
286Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands.
287Now I wonder what that's for? Oh well.
288Now thou dost begin to comprehend. All folk must be allowed to speak their minds, whether thou dost think them wise or foolish - and thou must weigh what they do say, on chance that the most unlikely of them may be right. Therefore thou must needs see it enshrined in the highest Law of the Land.... If thou dost not, evil men may keep good folk from learning of their evil deeds.
289Now you do unconvince me. No need for all these flowers if you're sincere; only falsity needs poetry.
290Now, my personal role models might not be the ones you'd choose; but the point for you as a parent is to be one for your son - and get some others who will help you forge your son into the force he's been called to become.
291Odd thing, I'd never thought of my pa as a person. I expect a child rarely does think of his parents that way. They are a father and a mother, but a body rarely thinks of them as having hopes, dreams, ambitions and desires and loves. Yet day by day pa was now becoming more real to me than he had ever been, and got I to wandering if he ever doubted himself like I did, if he ever felt short of what he wished to be, if he ever longed for things beyond him that he couldn't quite put into words.
292Oh do try and use your brain my girl.
293Oh, just punch up "7438000 WHI 1212 7272 9 Double 1 E8 EX 4111 309 Eleven 5", and then see what happens.
294Old Laurent Moutier was gone, at the age of ninety, taking with him like everyone does a lifetime of unknown private hopes and dreams and fears and experiences, and leaving behind him like most people do a thin trace of himself in his living descendants. He had never had a clear idea of what would become of his beautiful mophaired daughter and his two handsome grandsons, nor did he really want one, but like every other twentieth-century male human in Europe he hoped they would live lives of peace, prosperity and plenty, while simultaneously knowing they almost certainly wouldn't. So he hoped they would bear their burdens with grace and good humour, and he was comforted in his final moments by the knowledge that so far they always had, and probably always would.
295Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
296Once liberty was surrendered to tyranny, it could be smothered for centuries before its flames again sprang to life and brightened the world.
297One cannot eliminate unhappiness any more than one can eliminate darkness. The goal of government, you see,... is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.
298One day he'll get so cunning, even he won't know what he's planning.
299One day I will come back, yes, I will come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.
300One of the things that defines our character is how we handle our mistakes.







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