Stephen Fry Quotes
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

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Conscience is God present in man.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.
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Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
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That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.
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An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.