Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

Ian M. Banks
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  2. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer - Douglas Adams

  3. I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. - G.k. Chesterton

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  1. Perhaps it is different for humans, dear prince, " she said, sounding sad, "but we have found that the underdisciplined child will bump up against life eventually and learn their lesson that way - albeit all the harder for their parents' earlier lack of courage...

  2. Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

  3. The ship told you the guilty systems recognizes no innocents. I'd say it does. It recognizes the innocence... only to violate it.

  4. Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

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