“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”
“If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.”
“If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.”
“Do you want help?"
"No."
"Do you need help?”
“Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.”
“A Two-Onebee droid doesn’t need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.”
“Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.”
“I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.”
“This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.”
“selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.”
“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
“I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.”
“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied”
“I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you,
To which I sign my name.”
“Everybody was asleep. Everybody except me, James Herriot, creeping sore and exhausted towards another spell of hard labour. Why the hell had I ever decided to become a country vet? I must have been crazy to pick a job where you worked seven days a week and through the night as well. Sometimes I felt as though the practice was a malignant, living entity; testing me, trying me out; putting the pressure on more and more to see just when at what point I would drop down dead.”
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