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"It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian."
"The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient."
"If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard."
"I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse."
"Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero."
"We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act."
"Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people."
"A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher"
"What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost."
"I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him."
"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."
"How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over."
"A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise."
"If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life."
"My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance."
"This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element."
"Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size."
"One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely"
"The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense."
"We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary."
