"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
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"To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law."
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"It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better."
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"If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become."
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"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger."
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"If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change."
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"Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural."
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"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
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"The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit. They all should be keenly interested in the picture. No one in person should donate to an extent where he would keep the others from entering into the production and freely expressing themselves."
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"I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation."
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"If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?"
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"If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital."
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"If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be."
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"The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way."
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"Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain."
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"(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born."
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"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."
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"I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer."
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"Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this."
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"It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them."
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