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It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Revenge is the best revenge.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

The older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man.

Many are called, few are chosen.

(Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.

What are those humps on her chest?

You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and stand on it. Then I'd be taller.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

I know everything I know about.

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Treat others as you would expect to be treated by them,

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

Get on your feet or die.

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Don't think of it as a lie, think of it as the truth under imaginary circumstances.

Non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed)

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary

The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that's been in front of you all your life.

Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Where have you come from boy?'
He looked at her again.
'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

And what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?

The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

- Why you?
- ( ... ) I'm the best.
- Modest of you.
- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

The mere adding of years to life is not living.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.