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J.B.S. HALDANE
The universe may not only be queerer than we think, but queerer
than we can think.
THOMAS HARDY
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is
too strange to have happened.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
BERN HARKINS
The Rebels
If the object of your desire detests you, hope yet abides...
only indifference is fatal to romance.
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Ice is the mariner's enemy, but it can be the adventurer's salvation.
I speak, now, not of physical ice, but the psychic ice in the
veins of the competent liar/actor. Conjure ice at times of crisis.
Ice for the heart, ice for the mind, and borrow serenity therefrom.
Take calm and strenght from the ice, cool the blood, steady the
hand... Then greet trouble as the Djun greets a lackey. But let
the mariner take heart, and the adventurer beware: sooner or later,
ice melts.
OLIVER HEDFORD
Liar: one who tells an unpleasant truth.
HEWLETT
Are you in the right sexual category? This is the question. Who
gives a shit... Tits and balls dicks and fannys. Give me celibate
vegetarians from Mars anytime.
- Tank Girl
ADOLF HITLER
The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a
great lie than to a small one.
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
ERIC HOFFER
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and
the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is
something that is not there.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist
but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the
means he uses to frighten you.
The Passionate State of Mind
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing
the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate
each other.
KIN HUBBARD
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a
tune.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable
sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends
you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next
time... Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
- in the introduction to his 'Brave New World'
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more
interesting than sex.
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity,
human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice
and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf
of religous or political ideas.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking
things for granted.
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