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| 251 | My name is Marillion. | |
| 252 | 'Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there be a man in her line of sight.' | |
| 253 | Never mind. I'll have him completely bewildered by the time I'm finished. | |
| 254 | Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness... | |
| 255 | 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. | |
| 256 | No data yet.... It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. | |
| 257 | No dictatorship has ever survived that did not institute censorship. | |
| 258 | 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! | |
| 259 | No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them. | |
| 260 | 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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| 261 | Nonsense, time for a quick adventure then back for tea. | |
| 262 | Nonsense. Time for a quick adventure, then back for tea. | |
| 263 | Nothing but the truth could break me. What is harder than the truth? | |
| 264 | 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. | |
| 265 | Nothing was more dangerous for the sanity of men than a woman with too much time on her hands. | |
| 266 | Now I wonder what that's for? Oh well. | |
| 267 | 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. | |
| 268 | 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. | |
| 269 | Oh do try and use your brain my girl. | |
| 270 | Oh, just punch up "7438000 WHI 1212 7272 9 Double 1 E8 EX 4111 309 Eleven 5", and then see what happens. | |
| 271 | 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. | |
| 272 | Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time. | |
| 273 | Once liberty was surrendered to tyranny, it could be smothered for centuries before its flames again sprang to life and brightened the world. | |
| 274 | 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. | |
| 275 | One day he'll get so cunning, even he won't know what he's planning. | |
| 276 | 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. | |
| 277 | One of the things that defines our character is how we handle our mistakes. | |
| 278 | One thing you’ll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it’s usually true. | |
| 279 | Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. | |
| 280 | Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. | |
| 281 | Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery. | |
| 282 | Our lives are different to anyone else's. That's the exciting thing.
Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing. | |
| 283 | 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. | |
| 284 | 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. | |
| 285 | Pattern, nothing is less funny than explaining humor... | |
| 286 | People who hate don't usually recognize that vile taint within themselves. They spew their hatred as righteous. That corruption is what makes them so evil - and so dangerous. They are able to do the most despicable things and think themselves heroes for having done them. | |
| 287 | 'Profit' is a dirty word only to the leeches of the world. They want it seen as evil, so they can more easily snatch what they did not earn. | |
| 288 | Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things. | |
| 289 | Raising awareness for a cause is one thing, but to have a vocal minority impose its will onto the rest of us and then attempt to stifle dissent is outrageous... | |
| 290 | Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Leave them alone. | |
| 291 | Right, move. I want you off this planet before you commit any further atrocities. | |
| 292 | She didn't understand... She couldn't understand. She wanted to save our lives. And perhaps the lives of all the other beings of the solar system. I hope she's found her perfection. We shall always remember her as one of the daughters of the gods. Yes, as one of the daughters of the gods. | |
| 293 | She lets her knowledge out a bit at a time, so as not to embarrass me. | |
| 294 | She said the cafeteria must follow state guidelines; otherwise their funding could be jeopardized. | |
| 295 | She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think. Nicci had been a slave to everyone of need. She had given her masters their only real weapon against her; she had surrendered to their twisted lies by putting the crippling chains of guilt around her own neck for them, giving herself freely into slavery to the whims and wishes of others instead of living her life as she should have - for herself. She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another’s desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters. | |
| 296 | Since we left Telos, you've managed to start three electrical fires, a total power failure and a near collision with a storm of asteroids. You even managed to burn dinner last night. And in case you've forgotten, we were supposed to have a cold dinner! | |
| 297 | Slavery spreads, for if it is accepted to take a man's life for amusement, then how much wiser to take it for profit? | |
| 298 | Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly! | |
| 299 | Small though it is, the human brain can be quite effective when used properly. | |
| 300 | So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other. | |