"There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is."
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"If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying."
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"If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary."
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"The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
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"Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty."
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"The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism."
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"A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers."
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"We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more."
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"I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more."
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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
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"Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition."
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"All would live long, but none would be old."
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"For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold."
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"The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant."
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"The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.""
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"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor."
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"If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty."
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"It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't."
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"I think that if you have a single payer system and an opt-out for people who want to pay more [for better service, etc.], I think it would be better - and I think we'll eventually get there. It wouldn't be better at the top - [our current system] is the best in the world at the top. But the waste in the present system is awesome and we do get some very perverse incentives."
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