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"It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep."
"The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often."
"God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done."
"It would be positively boring if minds were in tune."
"My personal wish would be to have my own TV show but, if I could have anything, my wish for the world is that no one on the Earth would ever go hungry."
"There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for that song, and then I had to go and shoot a separate scene. That would be one day. So yeah, it was about the value of time and being prepared, and not to freak out."
"How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans."
"For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels."
"Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases."
"You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, "I'm a writer," it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away."
"I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten."
"I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried."
"Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion."
"If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good."
"Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words."
"So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can."
"It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so."
"We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so."
"Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs."
"We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual."
