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“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.”

People Thinking Mean Might Would Be Today Information Type Credit Selling Cards Not Sure Buying Online Credit Card Think Twice Buying And Selling

Author:Bill Gates

“Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own moral and ethical failings honestly according to a secular code of right and wrong.”

People Use Would Be Faces Moral Failing Honestly Code Reasoning Ethical Secular Lexicon

Book:Exodus: A Memoir

Source: Exodus: A Memoir

“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.”

People Ifs Humans Looks Feelings Dream Would Be Purpose Wonderful Creating Mass Misery Significant Awake Aspire Percentages Great People Being There Insignificance Stop Dreaming

Author:Craig Stone

“Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.”

People Ifs Way Real Would Be Beautiful Nice Generations Theater Faults Vampire Being Real Robots Convenient My Generation Movie Theater

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.”

People Ifs Kind Would Be Cities Ten Majors Shots Okay Russia Beer Introducing Vodka

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I'm trying to separate myself from other people by having songs that would be considered - technically - original things. I don't seek out mashups. I'm associated with the whole mashup movement, and it's too bad because I'm not a huge fan of them.”

People Trying Whole Would Be Song Fans Movement Huge Originals Mashups

Author:Girl Talk

“It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.”

People War Enough Helping Would Be Impossible Finance Welfare

Author:Ron Paul

“If more people rode bikes and less people drove cars, the air would be in better shape and people would be in better shape.”

People Ifs Would Be Air Car Shapes Bike

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge.”

People Thinking Hard Body Would Be Able Moving Challenges Space Walks Silence Okay Be Good Stillness Interacting

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

People Thinking Writing Mind Kind Enough Would Be Able Wanted Song Wish Stars Goal Pay Rocks Willing Rock Star Of My Mind

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.”

People Ifs War Would Be Views Existence Occupation Beneficial

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.”

People Ifs World Would Be Musician Jazz Profession Income Jazz Music Jazz Musician Affluent Proficiency

Author:Robert Emerson Coleman

“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

“It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .”

Source: A view of the Constitution of the United States of America

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.”

Source: Chamfort: Reflections on Life, Love & Society : Together with Anecdotes and Little Philosophical Dialogues

“Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Facts Government Would Be Poor Fit Republican Program Sorry Selfish Welfare Fewer Proliferation Insensitive Welfare Programs

Author:Andy Rooney

“It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.”

People Giving Government Would Be Army Institutions Obedience Glorious Attachment Stakes Navy Rotten Timber

Author:Edmund Burke

“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

“I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.”

People World Feels Has Beens Done Seems Would Be Consciousness Amount Murder Vanity Oppressed Diminish Weariness Tedium

Book:The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.”

People Government Would Be Principles Democracy Share Influence Equal Fairs Roots Foundation Privilege Contrary Inequality Representation Sections

Author:John Stuart Mill

“In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.”

People Thinking World Love Ends Would Be Speculation Gratification Without Love Filth

Author:Emile Zola

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.”

People Would Be Natural Results Numbers Half Personality Iron Atoms Riding Gross Bicycle Parish Natural Life

Book:The Complete Novels

Source: The Complete Novels

“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.”

People Knows Feels Should Mind Stories Feelings Happens Would Be Able Sides Emotion Needed Capable Sitting Concerned Tables Oneself Intellect Noble Affected Colossal

Author:John Ruskin

“There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.”

People World Ideas Would Be Names Consequence Neighbor Tyranny Labels Tolerate Hateful Loathe Detest

Book:Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

Source: Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote

“If you were good enough, there would be no need of confessing Christ at all. It is just because you are not good enough, that Christ says to you, "Follow me." He came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. It is not the perfect people whom He wants in His church, but those who have a deep sense of their own imperfection, and who believe that His strength is made perfect in weakness.”

People Ifs Want Needs Believe Made Enough Would Be Christ Church Perfect Weakness Sinner Repentance Good Enough Imperfection Righteous Follow Me Not Good Enough Confessing

Author:Washington Gladden

“I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.”

People Would Be Able Past Asks Rich Forgiving Civilized Fulfilling Forgive Me

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not. Anything other than this talk.”

People Ifs Should Years Book Would Be Fighting Literature Wonderful Reader Shots Critics Spots Department Reviews Say Anything Bans Insufferable Book Review

Author:Philip Roth

“I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.”

People Mind Mean Would Be Cities Politician One Day Bounds Italian Grain Agriculture Reliance Discouraged Revive Good Mind

Author:Augustus

“People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.”

People Ifs Would Be Today Forget Species Extinction Zoos

Author:Betty White

“I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.”

People I Can War States Would Be America President United United States Imagine Bases Killing Massive Killing Each Other War With Yourself

Author:George W. Bush

“If I can still be successful making films and no-one will ever know me, then that would be great. Because we (actors) just like to do what we do. People who are doing it for fame, I don't know if they ever get really successful.”

People Ifs Knows Stills I Can Would Be Film Actors Successful Fame Being Successful Know Me Get Real

Author:Channing Tatum

“If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Kind Made Ends Would Be Roles Brad Newman

Author:Channing Tatum

“I have never written a musical. I have never written a weird, interactive piece of theater. I wanted to do something that would be disturbing. It will be disturbing theater with songs. There will be no people on wires. That's probably the next one of those things on my bucket list of things that I need to write before I get hit by that car.”

People Needs Writing Would Be Wanted Song Next Pieces Written Car Theater Musical Lists Wire Disturbing Buckets The Next One Interactive Bucket List

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.”

People Thinking Way Feels Would Be Responsibility Shapes Projects Essence Mad Burden Relate Fearful Canvas

Author:Tony Robbins

“Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better place, where everyday people, from poor people who were white and red and yellow and black and brown, would be able to live lives in decency and dignity.”

“One hundred years ago, people were faced with the choice of learning to read or remaining illiterate laborers who would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world. In the coming century, being able to command a world that will be thoroughly computerized will set apart those who can live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly left behind.”

People World Years Would Be Able Choices Left Behinds Century Hundred Years Ago Command Left Behind Illiterate Laborers Learning To Read

Author:Yishan Wong

“If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.”

People Ifs Might Would Be Lost Walks Path Wonderful Tired Woods Venture Beaten Living On New Experiences Beaten Path Confident Woman

Book:The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

Source: The Confident Woman: Start Living Boldly and Without Fear

“If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.”

People Ifs World Believe Persons War Would Be I Believe Levels Attention Known Violence Disappear Bangs No War Displeasure Gavel

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.”

People Ifs Thinking World Writing Two Seems Would Be Talking Connections World History Great Writers Talkers

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”

People Ifs Life Would Be Interesting Skills Interesting Life

Book:Prose Fancies

Source: Prose Fancies

“Slackers might look like the left-behinds of society, but they are actually one step ahead, rejecting most of society and the social hierarchy before it rejects them. The dictionary defines slackers as people who evade duties and responsibilities. A more modern notion would be people who are ultimately being responsible to themselves and not wasting their time in a realm of activity that has nothing to do with who they are or what they might be ultimately striving for.”

“One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.”

People Want Looks Ends Seems Would Be Strange Birth Extraordinary Puzzles Totality

Book:Conversations with Robertson Davies

Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies

“When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Faces Names Chance Ran Assumption Senate Killers Underestimate Hussein Seriousness

Author:Barack Obama

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

People Wells Would Be Water Easier Spring Stones Drinking Dry Thirsty Flowing Water

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.”

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

People Ifs Men Persons Dream Would Be Spirit Simple Taken Abuse Obedience Ambitious Prophecy Superstitious Crafty Ambitious Person

Book:Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.”

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

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