Quotes 401 till 420 of 1211.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life (1998) -
If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.
Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001) -
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 people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
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If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
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If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
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