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| 151 | I have lived well here. I should like to see this last because I have built it strong and made it good, but I know it will not. Even my books may not last, but the ideas will endure. It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.
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| 152 | 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. | |
| 153 | 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. | |
| 154 | I know - every educated man should be a critic... and if you're not willing to learn, you have no right to criticize. | |
| 155 | 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. | |
| 156 | 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}. | |
| 157 | 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. | |
| 158 | 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. | |
| 159 | I swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. | |
| 160 | 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... | |
| 161 | I was aware that just because men belong to the same race does not mean that they are immediately and instinctively comrades in adversity. | |
| 162 | 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. | |
| 163 | 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. | |
| 164 | If a man can find dry wood after three days of rain he's a man to ride the river with. | |
| 165 | If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed. | |
| 166 | If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. | |
| 167 | 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. | |
| 168 | If one man dies for what he believes in - would you deny him that right? | |
| 169 | If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. | |
| 170 | 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. | |
| 171 | If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future. | |
| 172 | If you think you're a slave, then you are a slave... | |
| 173 | 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. | |
| 174 | If, in war, you're not willing to die for your cause but your enemy is willing to die for his, a terrible weight has been set on one side of the scales. | |
| 175 | I'm not a professional educator, of course, but maybe if the school system would stop teaching third-graders how to have sex, they wouldn't have so big a problem. | |
| 176 | I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good. | |
| 177 | In a manner of speaking you hide behind women's skirts as you shoot arrows so that when arrows come back at you, you can feign outrage at an atrocity. | |
| 178 | In a wide-open land like this where law was a local thing and no officer wanted to spread himself any further than his own district, a man could do just about what he was big enough to do, or that he was fast enough with a gun to do. The only restraint there was on any man outside of the settled communities was his own moral outlook and the strength of the men with him. | |
| 179 | In other words, the only legal hoe is a union hoe. | |
| 180 | In the end words are just wind. | |
| 181 | In the hills we like our coffee strong but this here would make bobwire grow ona man's chest in the place of hair. | |
| 182 | In this age of social networking, privacy is becoming an ancient relic. Lives can be changed by the posting of a single photo or profile update. And in the case of Tyler, lives can be lost in 140 characters or less. | |
| 183 | In trade between willing parties who share moral values and who deal fairly and honestly with one another, compromise over something like price is legitimate. In matters of morality or truth, there can be no compromise. | |
| 184 | Instead you did what the rest did - what humans always do - you believed that your vision was somehow superior to that of your fellows. You decided that everything would be all right if only people wouild listen to you. And you acted on that wholly selfish belief. | |
| 185 | Isn't it odd that the more advanced we've become, the more ignorant we've become? | |
| 186 | It ain’t ever as simple, is it, as a man is just good or bad? Not even you. Not even Bethod. Not anybody. | |
| 187 | It frightens me... because we all see the world by some kind of light personal to us, and that light changes our perception. I don't see clearly. I want to, but I don't know if I ever truly can. | |
| 188 | It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. | |
| 189 | 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. | |
| 190 | It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. | |
| 191 | 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. | |
| 192 | It is good to know well a man you are going to kill; it is not good to understand him. | |
| 193 | It is good to say that you are afraid. It is not good to be so bold. A little feear makes a man think. It is better to be a little afraid, and yet do what has to be done. | |
| 194 | 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... | |
| 195 | It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts. | |
| 196 | It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do... it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own... it was always chance, bad luck.... The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure. | |
| 197 | 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. | |
| 198 | It seemed that there was no one more glad for peace than those whose job it was to fight for it. | |
| 199 | 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. | |
| 200 | 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. | |