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| 101 | Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway. | |
| 102 | Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. | |
| 103 | Culture masked truth - but there could be only one truth. | |
| 104 | Dalton knew how easily the minds of the people could be manipulated with the right words, especially if people were distracted by other matters and confused with contradictions. | |
| 105 | Deactivating a generator loop without the correct key is like repairing a watch with a hammer and chisel. One false move and you'll never know the time again. | |
| 106 | Deep down, had she really craved the absolute sexual equality she's always thought she wanted, or had she instead, subconsciously really just wanted a reversal of the system? If the latter, then she really hadn't had any ideals, just rationalizations. | |
| 107 | Denying reality only works as long as enough powerful people see a benefit in playing along. | |
| 108 | Deserve Victory. | |
| 109 | Destiny was funny stuff, he knew. You couldn't trust it. Often you couldn't even see it. Just when you knew you had it cornered, it turned out to be something else - coincidence, maybe, or providence. You barred the door against it, and it was standing behind you. Then just when you thought you had it nailed down it walked away with the hammer. | |
| 110 | Discipline your boy to fend for himself and others as if there were no government, no church, no school, no courts, no therapy, no drugs and no cops to lean on to make things all better. Yeah, raise him to feel as if it is his duty to be the provider, to educate his children, to defend his family and nation, to judge disputes, to offer worship, to give spiritual advice and comfort, and to do all of this without acting like a chick. | |
| 111 | Discussion is for the wise or the helpless and I am neither. | |
| 112 | Do come on. Aren't you supposed to be programmed to be user friendly or something? | |
| 113 | Do not do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it. | |
| 114 | Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else. | |
| 115 | Do not think that thou shalt change him, daughter. No woman can ever change a man to become what she doth wish him to be. Marriage will change him, aye - not all at once, not in the moment the priest pronounces thee wed, not in a month, not even a year, but gradually, little by little, he will change - as wilt thou thyself. Thou canst but hope that he will change more closely to that which thou dost wish him to be. | |
| 116 | Do you hear that? That's a warning. The TARDIS is dying. | |
| 117 | Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning, and you just can't quite believe it 'cuz everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. And I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am. | |
| 118 | Do you think for once you could arrive before the nick of time? | |
| 119 | Do, or do not. There is no try. | |
| 120 | Doctrine by its nature is fallible. When it becomes inflexible, it opens itself to mistakes. You can't live your life by principles alone; you have to have compassion, too. If you don't, the best principles in the world can be corrupted into inhumanity. It's people who matter, not causes. | |
| 121 | Does death invalidate life? No, it defines it, and in so doing creates its value. | |
| 122 | Don’t be mean. We don’t have to be mean. 'Cause, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. | |
| 123 | Don't confuse education with sound judgement, colleen. Maybe the two should go together, but they don't when the teacher stops showing proof and the students stop thinking ideas through. | |
| 124 | Dreams are important... Never underestimate them. | |
| 125 | Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. | |
| 126 | Emotions by their very nature are not reasonable things. | |
| 127 | Entropy is the loss of energy within a system, which is self-defeating; that's perversity. And Murphy's Law is perverse. Therefore, both of them, and the Imp, are corollary to Finagle's General Statement: 'The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.' | |
| 128 | Etymology was hard enough without translation thrown into the mix. | |
| 129 | Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious - she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly. | |
| 130 | Even the sonic screwdriver won't get me out of this one. | |
| 131 | Even though comfort based on an illusion is itself illusory, it is for a while a deliverance from the anxiety and existential dread that the world today can generate in abundance. | |
| 132 | Every American... lives in the finest town in the finest county in the finest state in the finest country in the world - and each one of them believe it. And that is what makes America a great country and is going to keep her so. | |
| 133 | Every great decision creates ripples - like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences. | |
| 134 | Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries... | |
| 135 | Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. | |
| 136 | Everyone, to one extent or another, must face life’s trials. There will always be those who try to influence or even dominate us. We cannot allow such things to be an excuse for making the wrong choices. Ultimately, each of us lives our own life and we are responsible for it. | |
| 137 | Everything that happens in life has a scientific explanation... if you look for it. | |
| 138 | Evil grants no mercy, and to attempt to appease it is nothing more than a piecemeal surrender to it. Surrender to evil is slavery at best, death at worst. Thus, your unconditional rejection of violence is really nothing more than embracing death as preferable to life. You will achieve what you embrace. | |
| 139 | Expectations are a funny thing. When you're born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you've never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life. | |
| 140 | Exterminate! | |
| 141 | Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat. | |
| 142 | Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like. | |
| 143 | Fate whispers to the warrior, 'You cannot withstand the storm.' The warrior whispers back, 'I am the storm.' | |
| 144 | Few people, even clerical types, really believed in evil anymore, which was one reason evil kept winning. | |
| 145 | First Lady Michelle Obama has been at the forefront of this effort, the country's self-anointed First Parent. | |
| 146 | First things first, but not necessarily in that order. | |
| 147 | First, it is a mistake to presume to know anyone's internal emotional landscape based on what external emotional signals they seem to be sending. Second, you can apologize for something you have done, but only a fool apologizes for things that other people have done, for he has no authority to do that. | |
| 148 | Folks are always talking about how busy a bee is, shows they never really watched a bee. A bee makes so much fuss with all his perambulating around that folks think they're doing a sight of work, but believe me, I've watched bees by the hour and I can tell you all that buzzing is a big fraud. The bees I've watched always buzzed in the sunniest places around the best-smelling flowers, just loafing their heads off lusting around in the play of sun and shadow at the swamp's edge. Busy? Not so's you could notice. | |
| 149 | Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one. | |
| 150 | For some people small, beautiful events is what life is all about. | |