Quotes 241 till 260 of 732.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520 -
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder -
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
The Poisonwood Bible -
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
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