"If you took an IQ test, the results would be negative."
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"Without literature my life would be miserable."
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"The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end."
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"That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway."
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"I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness."
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"Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love."
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"One of the things I would love to do, by the time I die, is be in every single genre. That would be really fun. I get to shoot guns and jump out of a helicopter."
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"Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist."
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"You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!"
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"I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey."
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"Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare."
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"Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again."
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"There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded."
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"The answer is, of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved."
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"Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?"
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"Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks."
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"If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. That's why they call it artWORK!"
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"If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race."
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"Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences."
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"Most programming languages are decidedly inferior to mathematical notation and are little used as tools of thought in ways that would be considered significant by, say, an applied mathematician."
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