"All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself."
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"Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell."
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"It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be."
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"Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner."
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"A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone."
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"If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality."
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"The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation."
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"I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know."
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"It was thought that to rally Islam against godless communism would be doing the Soviet Union a very bad turn indeed, and that, in fact, transpired."
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"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
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"I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?"
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"All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions."
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"I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful."
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"Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill."
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"I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude."
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"It would be easier to screw up American Express than Coke or Gillette, but it's an immensely strong business."
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"Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads."
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"A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts."
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"Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen."
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"If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it."
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