"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers."
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"You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available."
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"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far."
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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
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"Toronto's one of my favourite places. If I were to move anywhere out of California, it would be Toronto. Definitely."
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"I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough."
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"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
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"The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal"."
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"Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?"
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"If it were not for guests all houses would be graves."
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"If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be."
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"How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger."
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"It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once."
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"It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility."
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"I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me."
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"If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against the right of asylum promulgated in both the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R."
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"If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself."
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"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."
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"It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more."
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"Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it."
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