You can't have it both ways. ...

You can\'t have it both ways. You can\'t have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
 Arthur C. Clarke

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
 Benjamin McKenzie
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.
 Arthur C. Clarke
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
 Arthur C. Clarke
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
 Arthur C. Clarke
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
 Arthur C. Clarke
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
 Arthur C. Clarke