Quotes 461 till 480 of 1201.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
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If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
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If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
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If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
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If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.
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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.
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If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
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If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
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If whatever we do changes one person's opinion, gets one person's readiness better than it was before, or at the end of the day entertains people, than we've done our job.
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