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“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

Ideas Would Be Asks Opportunity Born Half Company Baby Fool Needed Promise Foolish Make Sense Fulfillment Damn Executives Innovative Immature

Author:Peter Drucker

“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.”

People Men Should Would Be Eye Cases Wife Fool Evidence Argument Unhappy Paradise His Eyes Suspects Coward Infidelity Consolation Admirable

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.”

Ifs Men Government Would Be Earth Joy Fool Great Joy Detest Bad Government

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Right now in my life I spend much time dreaming over my visions of faith. I know this works. I would be a fool to ignore it. Remember, one of the mightiest keys in the Kingdom of Heaven is faith. Vision is a major part of faith, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Faith is directly contrasted to natural eye sight.”

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Author:Phil Pringle

“I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Business Stupid Fine Fool Foolish Secretary Administrative Funny Business Cute Funny

Author:Barry Goldwater

“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”

May Would Be Certain Fool Personality Circumstances Criminals Impulse Unjust Birthright

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.”

Ifs Would Be One Thing Fool If I Could Hints Ginger

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.”

Said Ends Matter Feelings Would Be Life Is Grief Fool Concerned Suicide Bitter Why Not Succession

Author:Stendhal

“You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.”

Wisdom Would Be Fool Foolish

Author:John Colton

“Were there no fools, there would be no flatterers.”

Would Be Fool Flattery Flatterer

Author:Norm MacDonald

“I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.”

People Way Mind Shows Seems Would Be Felt Interesting Accepting Watches Stage Fool Interesting Ways

Author:Fiona Apple

“People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.”

People Thinking Knows Art Would Be Fool Assuming

Author:Victoria Legrand

“Surprisingly, a large number of people who fell out with their partners contacted us, saying that they would love to fly on a Virgle spaceship. But out of April Fools' jokes come real things, and I wouldn't be surprised, within the next 50 years, [if] there are one-way trips heading out into space with people on it. It would be very exciting.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.”

I Can Would Be Feet Position Fool Accommodate Metamorphosis

Author:Jack Kemp

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Giving Ends Reality Would Be Wanted Order Belief Levels Worst Fool Illusion Spectrum Fooled Virtual Reality

Author:Vik Muniz

“I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.”

Ifs Life Inspiration Would Be Fool Educated Damn

Author:Bob Marley

“Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.”

Ifs Trying Art Self Would Be Lying Speak Fool Mouths Censorship Self Censorship Literary Art

Author:Salman Rushdie

“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.”

Ifs Would Be Forever Changed Fool Moved Stolen

Book:A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.”

Way Would Be Enemy Fool Convincing

Book:Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

Source: Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2

“I would be a fool to lose my heart to him, but I am tempted more each day.”

Heart Would Be Loses Fool My Heart Each Day Tempted

Book:To Bed a Beauty: A Novel

Source: To Bed a Beauty: A Novel

“Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael”

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Author:Meg Cabot

“You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.”

Ifs Love Firsts Dream Hands Would Be Asks Poor Business Fool Conversation Experience Personal Experiences Been In Love Austen Bronte Spenser First Hand Experience

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.”

“Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.”

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