"The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating."
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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
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"Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses."
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"The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action."
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"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
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"The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong."
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"If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich."
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"I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be."
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"Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not."
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"In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'."
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"So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God."
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"Let's say there was no terrorism whatsoever and we were all very nice to one another and we were all kind, we still would be faced with an extremely cruel and hostile universe and existence and so I'm a great pessimist and I feel that it's impossible really to be happy, and that the best you can hope for is to be distracted."
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"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"
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"If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week."
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"I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek."
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"All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions."
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"Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace."
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"The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
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"If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy."
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"CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it"
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