"Were I not a king, I would be a university man."
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"If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets."
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"Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest."
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"Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show."
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"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."
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"To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images."
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"Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false."
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"To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing."
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"Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues."
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"An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind."
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"The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers."
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"Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
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"Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact."
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"[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
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"In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks."
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"I began by telling the President that there was a cancer growing on the presidency, and if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it."
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"If I were dead, I would be the last to know."
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"There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum."
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"We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery."
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"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."
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