Quotes 741 till 760 of 1877.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions.
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If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919) -
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder -
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.
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If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
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If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.
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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ''it.''
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If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
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If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.
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