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| 401 | We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep on humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information. | |
| 402 | We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: The stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission. | |
| 403 | We deal with the odd, the unexplained. Anything on Earth, or even beyond. | |
| 404 | Well I'm glad to see you are aware of the gravity of the situation. | |
| 405 | Well that's good because any minute now it shall cease to exist. | |
| 406 | Well, his parents had had their episodes, that was true. Marriage was not an end to a struggle, but a beginning to a long process of working together, against vanities and false pride and arrogance. And that intimacy was a prize to be won, again and again, every day. It was not the fruit of a magic spell worked by a priest at the altar. He knew that well, and was braced for it, even eager.... | |
| 407 | Well, I made up the name "TARDIS" from the initials: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. | |
| 408 | Well, since we're insulting one another, I can't say I care much for your taste in clothes. Doesn't do a thing for you. | |
| 409 | Well, you have a good start. Admitting that you don't know something is the first step to learning.... Every day, I amaze myself with all I don't know. | |
| 410 | Well... it is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved. | |
| 411 | We've only just arrived. There's no need to start to worry yet. | |
| 412 | What a sentimental old thing this TARDIS is. | |
| 413 | What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. | |
| 414 | What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits. | |
| 415 | What is more frightening? The danger you already dread, or the trick the universe hasn't pulled on you yet? The one to make all prior concerns seem moot. | |
| 416 | What the blazes are you doing in here? Don't you know this area is strictly off limits to everybody except the tea lady and the Brigadier's personal staff? | |
| 417 | Whatever you want to call it, {+ bullshit} can be defined as:
Communications where reality and truthfulness aren’t nearly as vital as the ability to manipulate the audience to get it to do whatever one wants done. | |
| 418 | What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? | |
| 419 | When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad. History is filled with chilling examples. | |
| 420 | When you are willing to meekly sacrifice your ultimate value, your life, the only one you will ever have, to any thug who on a whim decides to take it from you, then you can't be helped. You may be able to be rescued for one day, but the next day another will come and you will again willingly prostrate yourself before him. You have placed the value of the life of your killer above your own. | |
| 421 | When you grant to anyone who demands it the right of life or death over you, you have already become a willing slave in search of any butcher who will have you. | |
| 422 | When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you... you may know that your society is doomed. | |
| 423 | When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it.... Goes double for the ones you tell yourself. | |
| 424 | When you won, it was always better to win quickly and with extreme advantage. | |
| 425 | When you're as old as I am... you'll realize that governments don't know what they can't do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction. | |
| 426 | Whenever equality is imposed as an absolute, it is always equalized at the least common denominator, and historically, the least common denominator of mankind has been quite low indeed. | |
| 427 | Who am I to fear the thunder, you superstitious dark dodging decadent? | |
| 428 | Who is John Gault? | |
| 429 | Who was it said Earthmen never invite their ancestors round to dinner? | |
| 430 | Why? Why do the authorities allow the criminal gangs that terrorize neighborhoods and entire cities to thrive as they do? Politicians, attorneys general, district attorneys, and the FBI have the power to destroy the gangs and prevent most of the crimes they commit, the murdering and raping and human trafficking and the endless flood of drugs across the border, the hateful murdering murdering murdering of faithful husbands and little girls in their Sunday dresses. Yet the people with the power to stop men like Hamal and Lupo and Parker often facilitate their activities. Maybe the majority of politicians and their appointees are corrupt, but not all. Are those uncorrupted individuals so often ineffective because they are cowards or lazy or stupid? Does loyalty to party, class, club, or ideology matter to them more than doing what is right? Why? Why can't such people see that the crime and anarchy they permit to flourish in poor and middle-class neighborhoods will eventually metastasize into the enclaves of the elite where they live their privileged lives? Why do they have contempt for those not in their circle? Why can't they see that being of the people rather than ruling over them is the only way that they themselves will survive? | |
| 431 | Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. | |
| 432 | Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. | |
| 433 | Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie. | |
| 434 | Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. | |
| 435 | Would the young folk so test those to whose words they hearken. We should always question authority before we accept it. | |
| 436 | Would you like a jelly baby? | |
| 437 | Yes, quite cozy isn't it? Oh you'll soon get used to it old chap, relative dimensions and all that. | |
| 438 | Yes, somehow a large chunk of the church has embraced a feckless faith, lead by a cardigan wearing Nancy boy Jesus and have contented themselves with being tolerant doormats for dillweeds with dense ideas. | |
| 439 | You acted like children fighting over a cake. You had a chance to share it, but instead chose to try to steal it all from your smaller siblings. If you come to my table, you will have to mind your manners, but you each will have bread. | |
| 440 | You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies. | |
| 441 | You can never know everything,... and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway. | |
| 442 | You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft. | |
| 443 | You can't force experiments or people to conform to your world view! The universe doesn't work that way! | |
| 444 | You can't walk into the middle of a Western town and say you've come from outer space! Good gracious me. You would be arrested on a vagrancy charge! | |
| 445 | You could augment an earwig to the point where it understood nuclear physics, but it would still be a very stupid thing to do! | |
| 446 | You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love... with your corrupted longing for it. You want me only to justify your hatred, to be your partner in self-loathing. To truly love someone..., you must revel in their existence because they make life all the more wonderful. If you think existence is corrupt, then you are sealed off from the fruition of such a relationship, from what love really is. | |
| 447 | You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't.... When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due. | |
| 448 | You have cause for bitterness.... But please... remember that it wasn't the Faith that committed those actions - it was the man who used that Faith for his own worldly purposes! | |
| 449 | You know Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. | |
| 450 | You know Jo, I sometimes think that 'military intelligence' is a contradiction in terms. | |