Aristotle Quotes, Tools Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

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Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

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The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

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I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

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