"Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it."
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"I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment."
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"The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you."
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"I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears."
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"While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional."
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"I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved."
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"I can't imagine us saying these things to each other out loud. But even if I can't imagine hearing these words, I can imagine living them. I don't even picture it. Instead I'm in it. How I would feel with him here. That peace. It would be so happy, and it makes me sad because it only exists in words."
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"My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular."
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"If I could just get to Poland everything would be okay."
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"Why couldn't people's insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became."
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"I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant."
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"All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified"
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"I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear."
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"No one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence."
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"The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God."
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"Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another."
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"I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films."
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"He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her."
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"This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash"
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"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
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