Immanuel Kant Quotes, Selfishness Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

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We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

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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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Tags : Alan Loy McGinnis Quotes , Self Quotes , Would Be Quotes

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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Tags : Alan Bradley Quotes , Long Quotes , Would Be Quotes

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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Monk Quotes

Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information - outside the administration.

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Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.

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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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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Children Quotes , Would Be Quotes

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

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If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Too Much Quotes

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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It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

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It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.

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With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.

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Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Men Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , People Quotes , Would Be Quotes

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Pride Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Would Be Quotes , Citizens Quotes