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"The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made."
"You have to have a work ethic and you have to be educated in what you're doing. You have to take it seriously. It doesn't mean that everything you do has to be serious. But you've got to have the tools."
"It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
"We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable."
"The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously."
"I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh."
"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious."
"Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
"If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards."
"I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious."
"I've got a serious-looking head."
"Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense."
"Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake."
"Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict."
"It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force."
"Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life."
"What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all."
"I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people."
"I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous."
"I was a serious method actor until I visited this site."
