"Pacifism There's nothing like seeing action in war to turn a soldier into an instant pacifist or an instant killer."
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"Biggest Problem with 10w [10w] The biggest problem with aphorisms is people believe they're true."
"Hustling [10w] Fishing's the world's oldest profession;only the bait has changed."
"With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor."
"Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him."
"Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys."
"Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned."
"It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."
"Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be."
"When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic."
"Because I lay with him… I’ve caught a glimpse of heaven. Or I understand what I need. Or I have the courage to be myself."
"There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope."
"Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else."
"Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!"
"Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."
"Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him."
"And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread."
"Our love, that’s real. Our currency, the dollar, that’s imaginary. Invest in us, and I promise you that you won’t lose your life’s savings."
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