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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
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If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
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It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
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London, how could one ever be tired of it?
The Middle Ground (2013) 107
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