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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Aristotle But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Boris Johnson But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Billie Burke But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Bob Geldof But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bob Dylan But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Junot Diaz But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
    Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Alvin Toffler But if this makes the financial system more flexible and helps it overcome localized crises, it also raises the ante, escalating the risk of massive collapse.
    Power Shift (1990)
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Orwell But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
    Politics and the English Language (1946)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Herzog But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Barack Obama But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anita Roddick But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Nauman But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Birch Bayh But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Adam Jones But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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