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"Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori."
"If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness."
"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
"I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings."
"Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision."
"I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting."
"Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!"
"The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero."
"All men would be cowards if they only had the courage."
"If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already."
"Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon."
"Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them."
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."
"My night out would be with my husband, wherever he chose to take me."
"My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist."
"Do you ever wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?"
"England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation."
"If voting changed anything, it would be illegal."
"Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know."
"Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion"
