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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Daleks: [simultaneously] Exterminate! Exterminate! [They fire their weapons, none of which so much as touch the Doctor] The Doctor: Is that it? Useless! Nul points! [to Rose and Jack] It's all right, you can come out; that forcefield can hold back anything! Jack Harkness: Almost anything. [pause] The Doctor: Yes, but I wasn't going to tell them that. Thanks.

He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.

Space and time were hopelessly entangled, and the present moment was growing increasingly remote.

Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen," he said, without looking up. "I

I have always despised the capitalist greed and imperialist hubris that have motivated it.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

had the awful feeling I was about to get one of those stinging assessments your children are uniquely equipped to deliver. "I

Her mind that I have never claimed to read must be a place where slimy things swim and jostle pale eyed as in some subterranean sink.

His face was smiling, his eyes glittered in the late autumn moonlight, and he emitted a flickering aura that might have triggered seizures in an impartial but sensitive child, and yet he was strangely depressed.

Surely he'd have no trouble finding a replacement for someone like me." "You may like to tell yourself that, but it's only an excuse for not giving a damn about his feelings. Anyway, enough of that.

The scraggly spiders of her words crept around my brain

That soft but penetrating voice that caressed your ears and climbed through your brain like a vine.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

Anyone not wanting to sink in the wretchedness of the finite is obliged in the most profound sense to struggle with the infinite.

The best proof adduced of the wretchedness of life is that derived from contemplating its glory.

Did the Apostle Paul have any official position?' No, Paul had no official position. 'Did he, then, earn a lot of money in another way?' No, he did not earn money in any way. 'Was he, then, at least married?' No, he was not married. 'But then Paul was certainly not a serious man!' No, Paul is not a serious man.

That one is in despair is not a rarity; no, it is rare, very rare, that one is…not in despair.

So the merman cannot belong to Agnes unless, after having made the infinite movement, the movement of repentance, he makes still one more movement by virtue of the absurd.

Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.

That's it, keep rationalizing. Next thing, you'll be suspecting Captain Wesker of planning this whole thing.