Would Be Quotes
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I think as a consequence of that, there is also a fair amount of uncertainty about engaging in political activity that would be immediately suspect and seen as evidence as a sort of resurgent militancy.
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
M. Scott Peck
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It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.
Thomas Aquinas
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God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
Saadi
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The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.
Said Seyam
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Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all.
Madame de Stael
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It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.
Hal Elrod
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There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.
Yasmin Mogahed
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I never thought I would be divorced.
Andrew Cuomo
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My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.
Dakota Fanning
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I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.
Joanne Rowling
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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
Kevin Spacey
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
D. H. Lawrence
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No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.
Yana Toboso
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
C. S. Lewis
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
Zadie Smith
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A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.
C. S. Lewis
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Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.
W. J. T. Mitchell
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Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.
C. S. Lewis
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I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
J. J. Abrams
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You would be surprised how many directors don't know what they want. They might not know what they want until they see it, they might know what they want but no idea how to get it out of the actor, then you've both got a problem.
Ian Mckellen
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If the potential of every number is in the monad, then the monad would be intelligible number in the strict sense, since it is not yet manifesting anything actual, but everything conceptually together in it.
Iamblichus
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Everything in high school was reversed. If marijuana was supposed to make you mellow, I would be like, "The cops, the cops, the cops..." I was what you call the buzz kill.
Val Kilmer
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau