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  • Lazarus Long If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman 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
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Marcus Aurelius If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bill Goldberg If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Woody Allen If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Lord Melbourne If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aldous Huxley If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Ade If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 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.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Calvin Trillin If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Thomas Carlyle If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carine Roitfeld If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
    Asimov's Guide to Science (1972) p. 15
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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