"He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure."
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"Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?""
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"You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir."
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"A good place to start initially would be school plays."
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"So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous."
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"Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head."
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"Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling"
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"I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!"
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"It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason"
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"It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth."
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"Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce."
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"I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life."
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"It would be creepy if you knew my home address."
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"If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle."
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"Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man."
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"To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power."
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"So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France."
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"The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged."
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"Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous."
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"Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?"
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