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425 quotesIf there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Dickens
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His hands would plait the priests guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.
Uncategorised
Denis Diderot
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Plagiarism
John Dryden
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Price
John Dryden
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Finley Peter Dunne
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If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
Enlightenment
Wayne Dyer
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Detachment
Meister Eckhart
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
Soul
Meister Eckhart
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If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.
Possibilities
Thomas A. Edison
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Action
Albert Einstein
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
Research
Albert Einstein
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Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Language
George Eliot
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Words
George Eliot
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Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
Forgiveness
George Eliot
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Marriage
Elizabeth I
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Difficulties
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
Conventionality
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Motivation
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
Mothers
English Proverb
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
Politicians and Politics
Nora Ephron
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Affirmation
Epictetus
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Pessimism
Desiderius Erasmus
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Empathy
Euripides
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Writers and Writing
William Faulkner
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Envy
Henry Fielding
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun