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“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!”

People Would Be Heaven Hell Heavenly

Author:David Berg

“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”

Source: Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World

“Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would be so excited to have an opportunity to continue to push myself and grow, as an artist.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Would Be Artist Opportunity Grows Roles Incredibles Excited Learning New

Author:Misty Copeland

“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

People Thinking Mind Firsts Would Be Wanted Earth Lasts Film Planets Casts Blow Boxes Unexpected Planet Earth

Author:Alicia Keys

“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”

People Knows Way May Character Might Would Be Compassion Security Compass

Author:William Stafford

“If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!”

People Ifs Different Done Would Be Call Me Unworthy Scoundrels Plagiarism

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“I met a young woman the other day, and she said, what advice would you have for a writer, and I said it would be to work every day... Your job is to write. The rest of it will take care of itself. But, generally, it seems ... you know how that is, you meet people and they have a talent for self-promotion. Those are the pushy people. And you know their writing's not going to be any good, because that's not their talent.”

People Knows Writing Said Self Seems Would Be Care Jobs Young Know How Advice Talent Mets Take Care Young Women Promotion Self Promotion Pushy

Author:David Sedaris

“I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine.”

People Play Use Would Be Song Fine Instruments Jazz Traditional Offended Charlie Offended You

Author:Kenny G

“Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'”

People Ifs Men Stills Would Be Happiness Guy Powerful Imagine Streets Powerful Man

Author:Jim Carrey

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.”

People Government Would Be Care Self Control Who Cares

Book:Speaking up

Source: Speaking up

“You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.”

People Would Be Able Study Fields

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.”

People Believe Would Be Levels Generations Missing Grew Grew Up My Generation Kinder Level Headed

Author:Jorja Fox

“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”

People Feels Writing Would Be Wanted Literature Comedy

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I do think people have suggested that it would be a good thing if the reporting were accurate on Al-Jazeera and if it were not slanted in ways that appear to be at times just purely inaccurate.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Would Be Good Things Als Accurate

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people”

People Giving Would Be Fighting Responsibility Easier Give Me Army Satisfaction

Author:Aslan Maskhadov

“People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.”

People Ifs Way Said Humor Hands Would Be Funny Night Guy Praying Gun Knees Every Night Ufo Alabama Shotguns Abduction

Author:Bill Hicks

“The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.”

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Author:Lulu

“One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.”

People Writing Different Would Be Past Certain Church Century Unity Deny Catholicism Identical Present Day

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Now these fellows in Washington wouldn't be so serious and particular if they only had to vote on what they thought was good for the majority of the people in the U.S. That would be a cinch. But what makes it hard for them is every time a bill comes up they have things to decide that have nothing to do with the merit of the bill. The principal thing is of course: What will this do for me personally back home?”

People Ifs Hard Home Would Be Courses Politics Particular Serious Vote Fellows Bills Majority Come Up Merit Principal Back Home

Author:Will Rogers

“If the Son was begotten by the Holy Ghost, it would be very dangerous to baptize and confirm females, and give the Holy Ghost to them, lest he should beget children, to be palmed upon the Elders by the people, bringing the Elders into great difficulties”

People Ifs Giving Should Children Would Be Dangerous Son Holy Female Difficulty Ghost Elders Holy Ghost Begets

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Life Trying Mean Enough Whole Would Be Running Jobs Party Trouble Team Capable Apples Executives Good Enough Bus Successors

Author:Steve Jobs

“Had partition beencarried out, the history of our people would have been different and six millionJews in Europe would not have been killed---most of them would be inIsrael”

People Has Beens Different Would Be Six Europe Partition

Author:David

“Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.”

People Would Be Force Television Shy Larger Than Life

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.”

People Thinking Want Would Be Natural Study Our Lives Music Is Various Rhythm Realization Primitive Indispensable Animation Animator Live Every Day

Author:Walt Disney

“If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.”

People Ifs Would Be Greatness Respect Disrespect

Author:Marcus Garvey

“This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.”

People Ifs Men Government Would Be Realizing Features Replaced Cabinets Resignation

Author:Will Rogers

“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

People Ifs Way Matter Would Be Fighting Left Security Conversation Tyranny Agency Privacy Capability Dictator National Security Telephones Telegrams

Author:Frank Church

“The world of enlightenment, and that which creates enlightenment, is much different than what most people would think. Most people have Hallmark Card descriptions of what creates enlightenment. And if their descriptions were correct, then everyone who is in religious practice would be enlightened.”

People Ifs Thinking World Different Would Be Religious Practice Enlightenment Cards Description Enlightened Hallmark Religious Practices Hallmark Card

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.”

People Self God Would Be Like You Concerned Assuming Pissed Off

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably the Indians. And so most of the initial founding fathers were, while they may have had some really nice ideas about democracy, they had a lot of issues with people of color. They had a lot of issues with people who held things that they coveted.”

People Ifs Men May Ideas Country Facts Reality Would Be Father White Democracy Issues Nice Land Color Vote Stealing White Man Founding Initials Really Nice Speculators

Author:Winona LaDuke

“Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.”

People Ifs Littles Dream Would Be Humorous Practicals More Time

Author:J. P. McEvoy

“The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier to elect a woman president of the United States than Speaker of the House, because the people are far ahead, as I say, of the electeds, on the subject of a woman being president.”

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Author:Nancy Pelosi

“We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.”

“People in New York just seem a lot more open than I thought they would be.”

People Seems Would Be New York

Author:Carey Mulligan

“People like head trauma. They love knockouts. The crowd is silent, silent, silent... and then a knockout happens, and everyone goes native. There would be far fewer knockouts without the gloves.”

People Happens Would Be Silent Crowds Trauma Native Fewer Gloves Knockouts

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Jazz Communicate Preconceptions Playlists Putting Yourself Out There

Author:Kamasi Washington

“My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.”

People Giving Would Be Joy Purpose Wonderful Involved Give Me Invites Get Involved

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.”

“If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.”

People Ifs Would Be Suffering Heaven Millions Hell Forever Knowing Eternal Billions Horrible Torment

Author:Richard Carrier

“To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.”

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Book:Works

Source: Works

“I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.”

People Ifs Years Looks Stills Feelings Would Be Able Earth Space Millions Risk Happened Extraordinary Accidents Foolish Tied Standing Out Handful Stunning Space Shuttle

Author:Colin Baker

“That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.”

People Thinking Littles Would Be Ability Acting Advice Instinct Access

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading… I know this will sound like a cliché, but the single most important reason that people lose money in the financial markets is that they don't cut their losses short.”

People Ifs Knows Important Reason Would Be Sound Loses Loss Cutting Emotional Keys Discipline Financial Making Money Trading Financial Markets

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“I also visited several healing meetings... and became angry with what appeared to be the manipulation of people for the material gains of the faith healer... Dressing like sideshow barkers. Pushing people over and calling it the power of God. And money - they were always asking for more, leading people to believe that if they gave they would be healed.”

People Ifs Believe Would Be Healing Materials Calling Gains Asking Angry Meetings Pushing Manipulation Dressings Healed Healer Power Of God Sideshows

Author:John Wimber

“I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.”

People Thinking Use Would Be Games Stuff Worry Worst Marketing

Author:Jane McGonigal

“I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.”

People Thinking Children Ideas Home Seems Would Be School Order Strong Accepting Teacher Special Discipline Burden Punishment Obligation Very Strong Unfair Reluctant Corporal Punishment

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.”

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Author:George Will

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