"It would be good if we bore one another's burdens."
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"Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!"
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"I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that."
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"Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things."
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"I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given."
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"What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations."
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"If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business."
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"A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave"
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"Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day."
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"Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent."
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"The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle."
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"Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed."
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"It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States."
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"With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive."
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"My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists."
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"It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition."
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"It is quite possible even that the planet would no longer be able to sustain human life. Probably, the planet eventually would regenerate and produce some other life form. Consciousness would flow into some other life form and express itself through that, whatever that would be."
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"I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something."
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"The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this."
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"I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left."
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