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It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.
Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.
The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.
Just throw me in a time machine, hit random, and wherever I land would be great... Just being thrown into a different time really fascinates me.
If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.
For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.
The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.
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.
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
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.
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Koga:"You got a problem with that muttface?" Inuyasha: Did you just call me a mutt?" Koga:"No, you're right. That would be an insult to canines.
I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.
He has become a worm. That is what I am telling you." "I don't suppose it would be possible," said Henry into the silence, "to, er, step on him?
I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.
If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.
This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.
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.
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.
I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
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.
Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.
Oliver: You turned me down. So why, I wonder, did you decide Amelie would be a better choice? Claire: She smells better. And she made me cookies.
If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.
All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.
if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.
I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them
What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would become so little a priority.
The world would be a healthier place if oral contraceptives were available in every corner store and cigarettes were limited to prescription use.
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.
I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.
If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.
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.