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"Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen."
"But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?"
"You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap."
"Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them."
"It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of."
"It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you."
"They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!"
"He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people."
"He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure."
"Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you."
"The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun."
"I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me."
"Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too."
"Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!"
"Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you."
"We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live."
"A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it."
"If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes."
"Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind."
"There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving."