Adam McKay Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Definitions Quotes

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

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(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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That I would be loved even when I numb myself. That I would be good even when I am overwhelmed. That I would be loved even when I was fuming. That I would be good even if I was clingy.

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It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But one thing I do know. When I get there I am not going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Moses? Why weren't you David?' I am only going to be asked, 'Why weren't you Zuscha? Why weren't you fully you?'"

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

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But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work.

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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

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If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

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There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

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It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.

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