"Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that it would be a form ingratitude not to be content with it."
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"I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney."
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"In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman."
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"It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well."
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"And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based."
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"It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking."
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"If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it."
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"If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end."
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"Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}"
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"He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented."
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"Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy."
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"It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view."
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"I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!"
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"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered."
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"It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting."
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"Behave like the human being you wish all would be"
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"Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure."
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"If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations."
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"To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true."
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"Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
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