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To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller

Men, Live, Long

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.
Jon Stewart

Country, Two, Days

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Mind, Long

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Work, Good, Serious

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
Christopher Hitchens

Forget, Nothing, Actually

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Men, Live, Justice

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas

Family, Strength, Deep

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Beauty, Ignore, Flower

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

Time, Good, Smile

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Mason Cooley

Love, Few, Survive

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
E. O. Wilson

Music, Important, Human

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.
Henry Rollins

Person, Consider, Guess

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony

Work, Women, Live

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
H. P. Lovecraft

Fire, Create, Pure

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Thought, Goal

At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.
Jose Mourinho

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois

Men, Minds, Lives

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Douglas MacArthur

Peace, War, Honor

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
Elizabeth Edwards

Life, Faith, Family

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
Jimmy Buffett

Loved, Cops, Hippies

I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black

Hope, Mind, Opinion

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.
Fareed Zakaria

Change, Mind, Long

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher Columbus

Men, Made, Arms

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Soul

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.
Morris Hite

Talk, Mass, Bother

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
William Hazlitt

Life, Home, Another

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter

Heart, Far, Behind

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
George Santayana

Pain, Long, Saved

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana

Great, Fear, True

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence

Laugh, Tender, Brutality

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