Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi"
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Would Be
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Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully."
George Washington Carver
Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
"God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless."
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not."
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"All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free."
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"You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies."
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"If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital."
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"Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else."
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"It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically."
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"Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent."
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"All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists."
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"The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable."
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"If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean."
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"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."
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"If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: don't be intimidated by other people's opinions."
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"I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool."
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"Are you stalking me? Because that would be super."
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"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
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"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship."
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"Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization."
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"In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels."
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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
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"It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews."
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"Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms. For each of them, love would be the revelation of the self through the gift of the self and the enrichment of the universe."
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