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• From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved.
  One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved....
• Between stimulus and response lies the free will to choose.
• Between two evils, choose neither. Between two goods, choose both. -- Tyron Edward
• Lister, if two people came to you for a job, and one of them's dead, which one would you choose?
  -- Rimmer in Red Dwarf 'Queeg'...
• Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkne
• An 'imp' is an off-shoot or cutting. Thus an 'ymp tree' was a grafted tree, or one grown from a cutting, not from seed.
  'Imp' properly means a small devil, an off-shoot of Satan, but the distinction between goblins or bogles and imps from hell is hard to make, and many in the Celtic countries as well as the English Puritans regarded all fairies as devils....
• The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them be good at taking orders.
  -- Linda Festa...
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