James Agate quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always
pretend that it isn"t there. If, however, you force him to look into it,
he"ll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for
something that he would like it to be. "The Selective Ego," Ego, entry for
14 Oct 1932." | |  | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he
can pretend that it isn"t sex but something else." | | | Found in the topic Engineer.
| | | "New Year"s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this
does not encourage them to take up more of my time." | | | Found in the topic Fool.
| | | "I don"t know very much, but what I do know I know better than
anybody, and I don"t want to argue about it. I know what I think about an
actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else
thinks." | | | Found in the topic Present.
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Interesting Quotes
The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.Isaac Asimov - US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
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