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If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.

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Immortality -- a fate worse than death.

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

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If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

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One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them

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...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

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To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

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