Quotes with would

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminist anti-porn discourse virtually always ignores the gigantic gay male porn industry, since any mention of the latter would bring crashing to the ground the absurd argument that pornography is by definition the subordination of women.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Socrates He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
    Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
    That we can die but once to serve our country!
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Kyle Schmidt I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
    Kyle Schmidt
    Canadian actor (1984 - )
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  • Mark Twain I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Sam Houston I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernard Mandeville If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Voltaire If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
    Original: Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Meister Eckhart If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Anita Roddick If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Joseph Addison If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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