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| 201 | I have been threatened by experts. I don't rate you very highly at all. | |
| 202 | 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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| 203 | 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. | |
| 204 | I have wasted all my lives, because of you, Doctor. | |
| 205 | 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. | |
| 206 | I know - every educated man should be a critic... and if you're not willing to learn, you have no right to criticize. | |
| 207 | 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. | |
| 208 | I like walking through the dark. It's mysterious. | |
| 209 | I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there. | |
| 210 | 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}. | |
| 211 | 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. | |
| 212 | 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. | |
| 213 | I refuse to be worried by a renegade like the Master. He's an unimaginative plodder. | |
| 214 | I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow. | |
| 215 | 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? | |
| 216 | I swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. | |
| 217 | 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. | |
| 218 | 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... | |
| 219 | I think you'll find, Sir, that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. | |
| 220 | I tolerate this century but I don't enjoy it. | |
| 221 | I was aware that just because men belong to the same race does not mean that they are immediately and instinctively comrades in adversity. | |
| 222 | I was dead too long this time. The anesthetic almost destroyed the regenerative process. | |
| 223 | I will not be threatened by a computer. | |
| 224 | 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. | |
| 225 | 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. | |
| 226 | If a man can find dry wood after three days of rain he's a man to ride the river with. | |
| 227 | If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed. | |
| 228 | If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. | |
| 229 | 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. | |
| 230 | 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. | |
| 231 | If it's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands. | |
| 232 | If one man dies for what he believes in - would you deny him that right? | |
| 233 | If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. | |
| 234 | If there's one thing I can't stand, it's being tortured by someone with cold hands. | |
| 235 | 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. | |
| 236 | 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? | |
| 237 | If you do not defend the rights of the individual, how can you be said to really be defending the rights of minorities? | |
| 238 | If you perpetuate the dreams of the past, then you stifle your own dreams of the future. | |
| 239 | If you think you're a slave, then you are a slave... | |
| 240 | 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. | |
| 241 | 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. | |
| 242 | I'm definitely not the man I was, thank goodness. | |
| 243 | I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity. | |
| 244 | 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. | |
| 245 | I'm not exactly breaking the laws of time, but I am bending them a little. | |
| 246 | I'm sick of being cold and wet and hypnotized left, right, and center. I'm sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if I'm coming or going, or been! | |
| 247 | I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good. | |
| 248 | 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. | |
| 249 | 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. | |
| 250 | In London, he had expected neither to walk on pavements of gold, nor to lie on beds of roses; if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted. | |