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“I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?”

“By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.”

Ideas Would Be Spirituality Possession Deities Tangible Tots

Author:Marsden Hartley

“To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.”

Should Writing Book War Would Be Individual Destiny Plans Crime Information Source Available All Time Monument Bankruptcy Coffins War Crimes

Author:Manly Hall

“I want them (the North Korean delegation) to understand that it would be difficult to see progress of the normalization talks unless we see their sincerity over the abduction, nuclear and missile issues.”

Want Would Be Difficult Issues Progress Nuclear Sincerity North Korea Missiles Korean North Korean Delegation Abduction

Author:Koichi Haraguchi

“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.”

“It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience, Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achieve.”

Ifs World Two War Would Be Order Decision Audience Achieve War Of The Worlds Officers Grandparent Offended Parallels Distortion Mercenary World War Two

Author:David Ayer

“Dull indeed would be the man that did not feel the thrill awakened by the first glimpse of brilliant color in the orchard, and the cheery warbling notes borne to our ears on the first gentle breath of spring!”

Men Feels Firsts Would Be Color He Man Spring Ears Breaths Notes Brilliant Gentle Dull Thrill Glimpse Awakened Orchard

Book:Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

Source: Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes

“The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.”

Would Be Political Occupation Palestinian Files Arrested Resisting Affiliation Detention

Author:Said Seyam

“Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.”

Knows Littles Enough Would Be Opportunity Lifetime Developing Fortunate Operating Systems Rare Opportunities

Author:Dave Cutler

“A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.”

Done Would Be Sin Crime Painting Finished Finishing

Book:The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

Source: The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual

“I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.”

Ifs Believe Hard Would Be Kids Wanted Hard Work Succeed Ambition Intellectual My Friends Clever

Author:Irving Sandler

“The dissemination of the individual's opinions on matters of public interest is for us, in the historic words of the Declaration of Independence, an 'unalienable right' that 'governments are instituted among men to secure.' History shows us that the Founders were not always convinced that unlimited discussion of public issues would be 'for the benefit of all of us' but that they firmly adhered to the proposition that the 'true liberty of the press' permitted 'every man to publish his opinion'.”

“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.”

“If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”

Ifs Problem Bigs Would Be Supreme Big Problems

Author:Kirby Larson

“Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.”

People Life Stills Different Dream Would Be Imagine Streets Actually Living

Book:Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos I think I may actually be able to use in a book one day. I need that focus when buying, because without it I'd just buy everything and my house would be overrun with bucket loads of snapshots; there are just too many beautiful images in the world, and I'd need to own them all.”

Thinking Knows World Needs May Book Use Would Be Able Beautiful House Focus One Day Thousand Standards Buying Load Collectors Buckets Snapshots Beautiful Images

Author:Ransom Riggs

“Millions of Americans would still despair in the eight long years of the Depression that lay ahead and many of their individual dreams would be dashed on the rocks of economic hardship. But collectively, the country was in a new place, with a new confidence that the federal government would actively try to solve problems rather than fiddle or cater to the rich. Hope was no longer for Pollyannas; the cynics about the American system were in retreat.”

Source: The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope

“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Ifs Made Home Would Be House Existence Knowing Dangerous Illusion Everyday Glasses Holes Towers Everyday Life Centre Bricks Compass Headlines Illusory Meaninglessness

Book:The Woman in the Dunes

Source: The Woman in the Dunes

“If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don't think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.”

“This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace, some things having died off, some sprouting in their first spring, but all of equal and utter rightness.”

Firsts Would Be Earth Lasts Perfect Tree Special Rocks Ought Equal Spring Miracle Died Winter Snow Autumn Pace Moss

Author:Jean Liedloff

“Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.”

Done Would Be Knowing Losing Painful

Book:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Revised Ed: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

Source: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Revised Ed: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

“Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.”

“Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.”

“It is a key fact about American policy in Vietnam that the withdrawel of American troops was built into it from the start. None of the presidents who waged war in Vietnam contemplated an open-ended campaign; all promised the public that American troops would be able to leave in the not-too-remote future. The promise of withdrawel precluded a policy of occupation of the traditional colonial sort, in which a great power simply imposes its will on a small one indefinitely.”

War Facts Would Be Able President Policy Keys Promise Built Campaigns Traditional Occupation Vietnam Troops Great Power American Troops

Author:Jonathan Schell

“The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

“With all the clever brains in America it would be great to see more investment and focus on this essential research!”

Would Be America Brain Focus Essentials Research Investment Clever

Author:Louise Burfitt-Dons

“It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."”

Ifs Men Firsts Would Be Certain Principles Childhood Creatures Conscience Creator Honestly Connecting

Author:John Campbell Shairp

“I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.”

Giving Feels Doe Made Would Be Mass Perfection Creator Accomplish Immortality Immortal Heritage Short Life Completeness Immortal Life

Book:Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda

Source: Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda

“Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.”

Ifs Would Be Political Turns Economic Essentials Aspect Fundamentals Setting Settings Employment Advent Neoliberalism

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.”

Mean Ends Use Dream Would Be Left Nations Vision Youth Higher One Day Mass Mere Chiefs Managers Indian American Dream Rhetoric Promoting Scholarship Higher Education Implicit Elitist

Author:William A. Henry III

“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

“Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.”

“The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.”

Firsts Enough Problem Would Be Parent Sides Bears Bed Demand Mountain Solutions Stones Casts Miles Agents Valleys Rip Disruptive

Book:The Cause of an Ice Age

Source: The Cause of an Ice Age

“Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere - because you never know. My basic advice would be - for trust - is: Live the way you ought to live - all the time - as much as you can help it.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Helping Would Be Advice Ought Careful Be Careful Careful What You Say

Author:Ysabella Brave

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.”

World States Would Be Ideals Irrelevant Ideal World

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”

Littles Would Be Fighting Easy Interest Assuming Burden Determined Germany Rivals Exploits Great Power 1930s

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)

“We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old. We're 175,000 years old. So we're trying something out. Who wouldn't think it would be better to have the most stuff to take as much as you could? As we do that, we see why the moral prophets come along and say, don't even store into barns, right? It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. We've seen we plunder nature. We plunder our neighbor. We create enemies because we're against each other.”

“The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ-our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.”

Ifs Different Reason Would Be Dies Found Wish Conversation Dumb Reason Why Openness Our Thoughts

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hinderances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

Source: Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

“When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.”

People Thinking World Should Would Be Nations Growing Land Waste Resources Surface Commit Mars Settlement Colonization Unforgivable

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.”

Ifs Kind Two Would Be Steps Republican Election Fundamentals Democrat Committed Vices Reform Presidential Candidates Vice President Presidential Candidate

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.”

Ifs Should Believe Mean Doe Reason Facts Would Be Certain Values Theory Prove Bases Protection Categories Justified Monopoly Prove It Patents Extending Copyright

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.”

Would Be Ordinary Workers Pigs Beaten

Author:Robert Ley

“I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.”

Ifs Thinking World Country Would Be Sides President Gone Clinton Chairman Business World Allegations

Author:Mark Sanford

“Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more than mere possibilities. Such a consciousness is measurably, quantitatively different from one that has not undertaken the same work and so, yes, is able to make correct decisions in an Emergence where an untrained mind would be of little use.”

Thinking Mind Littles Different Use Would Be Able Decision Consciousness Possibility Discipline Connections Mere Outcomes Emergence

Book:Anathem

Source: Anathem

“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Evil Effort Poverty Greater Direct Misery Vices Instance Assault

Author:William Graham Sumner

“In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.”

Would Be America Industry Cost Lows Threat Available

Author:Andrew Tobias

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