2,367 Quotes About Would-be

  • Author Voltaire
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    The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

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  • Author William Vickrey
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    Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

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  • Author Alan Watts
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    Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

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  • Author Allen West
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    It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

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  • Author Andrew Weil
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    Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest.

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  • Author Andrzej Wajda
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    The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

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  • Author Andy Warhol
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    I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things...

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