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Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.
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If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986) -
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond -
If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
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