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| 151 | Humans have historically distrusted and disliked one another to the point of murder and war over such minor differences as religion, color, language, and the like. That's one rationale Master System had for keeping each colonial world a homogenous race and culture. Yet my children could never truly comprehend why a Crow or a Sioux or a Cheyenne - or a Janipurian or a Chanchukian or even an Alititian - should be judged in any way but by what kind of people they are. But such things have always worked on a small scale, Nagy, particularly when we are crisis-driven or bound together by mutual self-interest, but never in the mass. That is our tragedy. Never in the mass.
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| 152 | I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. | |
| 153 | I can never fully believe or trust you... not after the lies you have told. That is the curse of lying..... Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. | |
| 154 | I despaired that so many people, born with the knowledge of intuition and with the ability to reason, shaped their lives instead by sheer emotion. So many were swept away by boldfaced lies and swayed into currents of vicious fantasies, until they were so far from the shore of truth that they couldn’t even see it. | |
| 155 | I didn't realize dying heroically was such a strain on the nerves. | |
| 156 | I distrust anyone who wants to ban something "for the good of the public." | |
| 157 | I don’t think it matters what age you are when you figure it out... I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong. | |
| 158 | I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees - and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it! | |
| 159 | I found out later that that was a loaded question. The straight answer was that there are a lot of people in show business who never stop to ask themselves what they're doing to their audience. Some of 'em don't give a damn, as long as they make money. Some of them care a lot, but have very different ideas from mine about what's good for the folks out there in the dark. Most of 'em laugh at the idea that a show can have any effect on people. I guess they're the ones who really think the argument over censorship is silly.
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| 160 | I had... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. | |
| 161 | I have been threatened by experts. I don't rate you very highly at all. | |
| 162 | I have been threatened by experts. I don't rate you very highly at all. | |
| 163 | I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. | |
| 164 | I have wasted all my lives, because of you, Doctor. | |
| 165 | I hereby confess to writing deathless prose, on occasion - and even immortal verse, now and then. But when I do, I do it alone, with only a split of vin ordinaire for company, and I do it for me, myself, only. It's pure self-indulgence, of course - 'art for art's sake' really means 'art for the artist's sake.' It's the sheer personal gratification of doing something as well as I can possibly do it, of expressing my feelings, my view of existence, my self - and it's for me, alone. Oh, I don't mind if other people read it, and it's nice if they like it. Sure, I enjoy praise; I'm human, too. But that's just a by-product, a side issue.... This - this is another matter. It's another thing entirely. This script, I wrote for other people, and I make it with a host of other people. If no one else ever hears it or sees it, it will have failed. Worse: it'll be absurd, without purpose. Without an audience, it's incomplete. | |
| 166 | I know - every educated man should be a critic... and if you're not willing to learn, you have no right to criticize. | |
| 167 | I know, I know. But they’ll solve them. I mean you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to be a rocket scientist. | |
| 168 | I like walking through the dark. It's mysterious. | |
| 169 | I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there. | |
| 170 | I mean only, when boys are cowed by abusive authority, Ritalined out of their brains or indoctrinated to believe this God-given behavior is bad that they turn into the followers, the veritable sheeples of stupid cultural morays, folding to high pressure peers and ideological {+ bullshit}. | |
| 171 | I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows. And that he who carries tales has little else in his head. | |
| 172 | I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something. | |
| 173 | I refuse to be worried by a renegade like the Master. He's an unimaginative plodder. | |
| 174 | I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow. | |
| 175 | I see, Captain Yates. So the Doctor was frozen stiff at the barrow, then revived by a freak heatwave. Benton was beaten up by invisible forces, and the local white witch claims she's seen the devil. Apart from that, it's been a quiet night? | |
| 176 | I swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. | |
| 177 | I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all. | |
| 178 | I think we should let our children be children. Let them be innocent and enjoy their grade school years. There will be enough pressure on them as they get older... | |
| 179 | I think you'll find, Sir, that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. | |
| 180 | I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it. | |
| 181 | I was aware that just because men belong to the same race does not mean that they are immediately and instinctively comrades in adversity. | |
| 182 | I was dead too long this time. The anesthetic almost destroyed the regenerative process. | |
| 183 | I will not be threatened by a computer. | |
| 184 | I yet dream of a union in which husband and wife are so firmly delighted in one another that they act in concert, and take so much pleasure in one another's company that the bondage of never doing what one wishes, but ever tempering thine own desires by another's whims, seems of little moment. | |
| 185 | I'd been feeling sorry for myself, which is about the most useless thing you can feel: it doesn't do a damned thing for you. You don't feel any better, you don't get any better, and you're too busy moping to do anything to actually make your life any better. | |
| 186 | If a man can find dry wood after three days of rain he's a man to ride the river with. | |
| 187 | If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed. | |
| 188 | If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. | |
| 189 | If I were arrogant, you would have more than two small cuts: to use an opponent badly, that is arrogant. To press the Game beyond your own limits: that is stupidity. And you are not a stupid man, kel Duncan. | |
| 190 | If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. | |
| 191 | If it's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands. | |
| 192 | If one man dies for what he believes in - would you deny him that right? | |
| 193 | If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. | |
| 194 | If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands. | |
| 195 | If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner. | |
| 196 | If you could touch the alien sand, and hear the cry of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satify you? | |
| 197 | If you do not defend the rights of the individual, how can you be said to really be defending the rights of minorities? | |
| 198 | If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future. | |
| 199 | If you think you're a slave, then you are a slave... | |
| 200 | If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking for others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so. | |