"It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application."

-- Augustus William Hare

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“I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.”
“The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.”
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.”
“Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.”
“Now let's try that again. Ask my wife nice, and maybe I'll let you sleep in the same bed as your teeth tonight.”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2011). “The Men of Black Ops, Inc., Volume 2: Feel the Heat, Risk No Secrets, With No Remorse, with an excerpt from Last Man Standing”, p.781, Simon and Schuster
“Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.”
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
“The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.”

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