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...but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)... John Locke
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are understood by everyone. But for me it is exactly the opposite...what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not to indefinite for words, but rather too definite. Felix Mendelssohn
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. Isaac Asimov
A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth. George Carlin
How could you receive a member of the Male Sex in your bedroom, and in your dressing gown? Sir, I must request you to leave immediately1 You don't mean to tell me that's a dressing gown? interrupted Mr Carlton, a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Well, it's by far the most elegant one I've ever been priviledged to see, and I suppose I must have seen scores of 'em in my time-paid for them too! Georgette Heyer
Meg Cabot quote: "I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just..."
I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow Meg Cabot
Robert Musil quote: "And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a..."
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality. Robert Musil
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals by fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. Yet that is what I see, or yearn to see. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged but in the creature... Orson Scott Card
In most cases, people, even evil-doers, are much simpler and more nave than we generally suppose. And the same is true of you and me. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. ...There aren't any good, brave causes left. (Jimmy Porter) John Osborne
I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare to inflict. Chuck Palahniuk
George R. R. Martin quote: "The bad part is you freeze your balls off, but since you're..."
The bad part is you freeze your balls off, but since you're not allowed to breed anyway, I don't suppose that matters. George R. R. Martin
Charles Dickens quote: "You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose,..."
You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want of air? Charles Dickens
Bram Stoker quote: "I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as..."
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does. Bram Stoker
Jonathan Lethem quote: "I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or..."
I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres. Jonathan Lethem

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