"To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality"
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"We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone."
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"It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs."
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"I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently."
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"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."
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"If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith."
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"In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon."
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"The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory."
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"Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered."
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"If people spent one hour per week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended"
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"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
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"If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable."
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"It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator."
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"I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it."
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"With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation."
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"If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant."
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"Hell would be to have to spend eternity in a Heaven with those who are sure they are going there."
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"The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat.""
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"If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed."
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"I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf"
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