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A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
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A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
The Sociological Imagination (1959) -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.
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A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
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A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
The Question of Imperialism -
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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