Quotes 5921 till 5940 of 15856.
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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
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If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
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If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
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If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
As quoted in Awakening Indians to India -
If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
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If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
A Walk in the Woods -
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
Too Busy Not to Pray -
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 the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
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If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.
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