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Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, 'Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.' He had been teaching me something he himself did not understand very well—something in math—but had taught me something far more important, a basic principle.
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
Women talk when they want to. Or don't.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
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