"If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise."
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"The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs."
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"The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind."
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"Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you.""
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"Life without music would be an intolerable insult."
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"I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference."
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"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard."
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"Eight hours of sleep would be amazing. That would be the best. If I could just figure out that part of my life, it would be great."
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"It would be interesting if Elvis were reincarnated as an Elvis impersonator."
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"If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare."
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"I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac."
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"It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture."
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"Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax."
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"It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies."
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"I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time."
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"Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing."
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"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines."
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"I can't see any hope but a second front. The psychological effect would be great, even if they could not wade all the way to Berlin in 15 to 20 minutes."
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"People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated."
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"How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it."
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