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| 301 | Mind 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. | |
| 302 | Most men are alone.... We come into life alone, we face our worst troubles alone, and we are alone when we die. | |
| 303 | Murder came before food, but there was always time for coffee. | |
| 304 | My dear Brigadier, it's no Earthly good asking me a lot of questions. | |
| 305 | My 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. | |
| 306 | 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. | |
| 307 | 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. | |
| 308 | 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. | |
| 309 | My name is Marillion. | |
| 310 | 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. | |
| 311 | 'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there be a man in her line of sight.' | |
| 312 | Never mind. I'll have him completely bewildered by the time I'm finished. | |
| 313 | Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness... | |
| 314 | 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. | |
| 315 | 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. | |
| 316 | No data yet.... It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. | |
| 317 | No dictatorship has ever survived that did not institute censorship. | |
| 318 | 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! | |
| 319 | No one ought to kill something... and not know it. | |
| 320 | No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them. | |
| 321 | 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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| 322 | Nonsense, time for a quick adventure then back for tea. | |
| 323 | Nonsense. Time for a quick adventure, then back for tea. | |
| 324 | Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth? | |
| 325 | 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. | |
| 326 | Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands. | |
| 327 | Now I hold by the Good Book, but in some ways I am closer to the Old Testament than the New. I believe in forgiving one's enemies, but keep your hand on your gun while you do it, mentally, at least. Because while you are forgiving him he may be studying ways to get at you. | |
| 328 | Now I wonder what that's for? Oh well. | |
| 329 | Now 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. | |
| 330 | Now you do unconvince me. No need for all these flowers if you're sincere; only falsity needs poetry. | |
| 331 | Now, 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. | |
| 332 | Odd 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.
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| 333 | Oh do try and use your brain my girl. | |
| 334 | Oh, just punch up "7438000 WHI 1212 7272 9 Double 1 E8 EX 4111 309 Eleven 5", and then see what happens. | |
| 335 | Old 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. | |
| 336 | Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. | |
| 337 | Once liberty was surrendered to tyranny, it could be smothered for centuries before its flames again sprang to life and brightened the world. | |
| 338 | One 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. | |
| 339 | One day he'll get so cunning, even he won't know what he's planning. | |
| 340 | One 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. | |
| 341 | One of the things that defines our character is how we handle our mistakes. | |
| 342 | One thing you’ll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it’s usually true. | |
| 343 | Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. | |
| 344 | Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. | |
| 345 | Only those with evil intent would make someone swear an oath of truth over a secret ritual. They require oaths of secrecy to control the minds of the believers, to subjugate and place them into bondage. | |
| 346 | Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. | |
| 347 | Our lives are different to anyone else's. That's the exciting thing.
Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing. | |
| 348 | Our officer cadre thinks that mercenaries have no honor, because they can be bought and sold. But honor is a luxury only a free man can afford. A good Imperial officer like me isn’t honor-bound, he’s just bound. | |
| 349 | Over the course of Uthen's illness, Lark came to realize something - that death can sometimes seem desirable in abstract, but look quite different when it's in your path, up close and personal. | |
| 350 | Pattern, nothing is less funny than explaining humor... | |