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"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."
"The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none."
"If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room."
"Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible."
"I love doing stunt stuff and action stuff. I'm not flipping off helicopters; that would be insane."
"He who would be free must strike the first blow."
"Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself."
"It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something."
"A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation."
"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date."
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?"
"Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place."
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
"Today is the tomorrow you were optimistic about yesterday. What are you doing today to make tomorrow as rewarding as you had hoped today would be?"
"Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death."
"Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself."
"It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists."
"I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece."
"I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing."
"If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness."
