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“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Actors Causes Cases Concern Hollywood British Villain Casting

Author:Alfred Molina

“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

Feels Enough Would Be Individual Language Causes Attention Conditions Violent Alternatives Tonight Our Society Rebellion Riot Irresponsible Unheard Condemning

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.”

Ifs Men Feels Has Beens Would Be Pain Moving Felt Causes Fronts He Man Blow Legs Destroyed Noses Preservation Limbs Joints Foreheads

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“I am strong-willed, and I am driven, and I am passionate... but I don't have... a central cause... a motivating cause, I don't know what that would be... other than trying to tell the truth when I work.”

Knows Trying Would Be Strong Causes Passionate Driven Telling The Truth Strong Willed I Am Strong

Author:Jennifer Beals

“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”

Ifs Might Would Be Law Universe Causes Known Effects Ignorance Source Consequence Standing Miracle Defined Laws Of Nature

Author:Charles Babbage

“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”

Source: Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches 1963-2009

“If one fourth of the capital of a country were suddenly destroyed, or entirely transferred to a different part of the world, without any other cause occurring of a diminished demand for commodities, this scantiness of capital would certainly occasion great inconvenience to consumers, and great distress among the working classes; but it would be attended with great advantages to the remaining capitalists.”

Ifs World Different Country Would Be Causes Class Demand Advantage Destroyed Occasions Consumers Capitalist Fourth Distress Commodity Working Class Inconvenience

Author:Thomas Malthus

“One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.”

“'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.”

Ifs Mind Wells Heart Ends Enough Would Be Funny Girl Causes Love You This Life Relax Weary End Times Weary Heart

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Sexual immorality and impure thoughts violate the standard established by the Savior. We were warned at the beginning of this dispensation that sexual immorality would be perhaps the greatest challenge. Such conduct will, without repentance, cause a spiritual drought and loss of commitment.”

Would Be Spiritual Causes Challenges Loss Standards Commitment Repentance Savior Immorality Drought Impure Thoughts

Author:Quentin L. Cook

“My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.”

Men Would Be Young Causes Advice Fame Seeking Young Man Deathless

Author:Wendell Phillips

“It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.”

Would Be Found Sex Causes Natural Contrary Oppression Division

Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

“To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.”

Men World Mind Would Be Form Desire Causes Materials Supreme Triumph Substance Manifestation

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”

“I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that would be fun.”

Play Would Be Wanted Fun Causes Uniforms Yards Scotland Buffoons Scotland Yard

Author:Tom Hanks

“Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.”

Ifs Wells Would Be Causes Simple Powerful Common Practice Advice Limits Ill Breathe Well Being Breathing Just One Ill Health

Author:Andrew Weil

“The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.”

People Way Mean Would Be Politics Causes Common Court Tricks Ashamed Finesse

Book:The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.”

Thinking Knows Want Feelings Would Be Causes Worst Drowning

Author:Dane Cook

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