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| 201 | It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Many people just don’t know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it. | |
| 202 | It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | |
| 203 | It is for such reasons that I always ask my clinical clients first about sleep. Do they wake up in the morning at approximately the time the typical person wakes up, and at the same time every day? If the answer is no, fixing that is the first thing I recommend. It doesn’t matter so much if they go to bed at the same time each evening, but waking up at a consistent hour is a necessity. Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines. The systems that mediate negative emotion are tightly tied to the properly cyclical circadian rhythms. The next thing I ask about is breakfast. I counsel my clients to eat a fat and protein-heavy breakfast as soon as possible after they awaken (no simple carbohydrates, no sugars, as they are digested too rapidly, and produce a blood-sugar spike and rapid dip). This is because anxious and depressed people are already stressed, particularly if their lives have not been under control for a good while. Their bodies are therefore primed to hypersecrete insulin, if they engage in any complex or demanding activity. If they do so after fasting all night and before eating, the excess insulin in their bloodstream will mop up all their blood sugar. Then they become hypoglycemic and psychophysiologically unstable. | |
| 204 | It is good to know well a man you are going to kill; it is not good to understand him. | |
| 205 | It is illogical, you see, to have a law which says 'guns are forbidden' when no one to whom the law applies is permitted to know the meaning of the word. Far more orderly to dispense with the concept altogether. At the moment, they withhold only the objects, and information. But it is only logical that they should also try to withhold ideas. You cannot control knowledge without controlling discovery, and you cannot control discovery without controlling thought, and when you control thought... do you see what I'm getting at... | |
| 206 | It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts. | |
| 207 | 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. | |
| 208 | It seemed that there was no one more glad for peace than those whose job it was to fight for it. | |
| 209 | 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. | |
| 210 | 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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| 211 | 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. | |
| 212 | 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. | |
| 213 | It's always easier to come up with a rationalization than to change your basic assumptions. | |
| 214 | It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. | |
| 215 | It's easy when you have nine hundred years experience. | |
| 216 | It's nothing to joke about.... A twenty-pound gassy sheep could blow a hole in the ozone. | |
| 217 | It's silly, isn't it, but I feel frightened. As if we're about to interfere in something that's better left alone. | |
| 218 | It's the end but the moment has been prepared for. | |
| 219 | It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for. | |
| 220 | It's the most extraordinary thing, I can't seem to find my sonic screwdriver anywhere. | |
| 221 | 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. | |
| 222 | It's weird. Being with you I can't tell what's right and what's wrong anymore. | |
| 223 | Jenkins! Chap with the wings there... five rounds rapid. | |
| 224 | Jesus meant us to ast God to hep us stand the pain, not beg Him to take the pain away. | |
| 225 | Laughter is poison to fear. | |
| 226 | Let me guess. My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters and you don't like my tie. | |
| 227 | Let me in. We can sit down. We can have a cup of tea. We can talk about this. Reasonably. | |
| 228 | 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.' ... | |
| 229 | 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. | |
| 230 | 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. | |
| 231 | 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. | |
| 232 | 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. | |
| 233 | Like Alice I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast. | |
| 234 | Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast. | |
| 235 | 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. | |
| 236 | Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. | |
| 237 | 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. | |
| 238 | 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. | |
| 239 | 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. | |
| 240 | Look, we'd get along much faster if we knew what we were doing. | |
| 241 | Math must pay its way with useful things.... Even though mere computation is like bashing down a door because you cannot find the key. | |
| 242 | Mayhap through over-familiarity. We treasure least what we have known too long. | |
| 243 | Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius... | |
| 244 | 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. | |
| 245 | 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. | |
| 246 | Murder came before food, but there was always time for coffee. | |
| 247 | My dear Brigadier, it's no Earthly good asking me a lot of questions. | |
| 248 | 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. | |
| 249 | 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. | |
| 250 | 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. | |