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  • R. A. Torrey If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.
    R. A. Torrey
    American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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  • Don Marquis If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • John Maynard Keynes If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
    The Economist (13 February 1982), p. 11
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Mark Twain If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joe Laurie Jr If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
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  • Aeschylus If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Pierre Gallois If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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  • Beau Willimon If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran If you reveal your secret to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Gloria Steinem If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Brad Feld If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Robert Townsend If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Emile Zola If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
    Emile Zola
    French writer (1840 - 1902)
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  • Buzz Osborne If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Richard Nixon If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bobby Orr If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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