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"You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose."
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"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
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Personal Development
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
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"Never go on a date unarmed. Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are."
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"Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . itwas all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate."
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"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
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"A word to the wise is enough."
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"With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
Science
"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Flying
"Just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention."
Awareness
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
Happiness
"I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that."
Science
"Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
Sentiment
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Science
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
Science
"There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again."
Relationship
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