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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
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If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
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 particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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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 property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
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