How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
—Doctor Pinero, Life Line, 1939
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You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
—Logic of Empire (1941), Precursor to 'Hanlon's Razor
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
—Assignment in Eternity (1953)
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Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
—The Rolling Stones (1952)
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Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
—The Rolling Stones (1952)
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Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.
—Double Star (1956)
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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
—Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
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