"It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work."
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"In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up."
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"Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is."
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"If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality."
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"It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists."
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"I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race."
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"People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single."
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"You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!"
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"Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water."
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"Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms."
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"Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective."
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"If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched."
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"If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America."
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"Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward."
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"What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close."
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"If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene."
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"Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me."
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"Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview."
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"The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation."
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"The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---"
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