You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

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When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror.

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Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.

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One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

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