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Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would… — Soren Kierkegaard
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization. — Carl Sagan
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be… — Arianna Huffington
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in… — George Bernard Shaw
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would… — Arthur C. Clarke
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye… — Louis Kronenberger
When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see… — Kathy Griffin
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed… — Victor Hugo
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its… — Robert H. Jackson
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the… — Albert Einstein
His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon… — Thomas Jefferson
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. — William Blake
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many… — Alan Turing
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton
There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would… — Jean Giraudoux

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