"My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it."

-- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#Doubt Quotes #Esoteric Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”
“I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.”
“HENRY: Now it is necessary to court her, and win her, and put on this clean dressing gown, and cut my various nails, and drink something that will kill the millions of germs in my mouth, and say something flattering, and be witty and bonny, and hale and kinky, all just to ease this wrinkle in the groin. It seems a high price.”
“Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.”
“In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.”
“If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.”
“Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"”
“Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.”

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