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"There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned."
"He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought."
"Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance."
"History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true."
"How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
"It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect."
"Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal."
"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
"A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power."
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"Without my family, I would be nothing."
"The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox."
"Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius."
"I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet."
"It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time"
"God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody."
"Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable."
"If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university."
"If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible."
