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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.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Pensees (1669) -
If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
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If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
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If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
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If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? Not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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If Western firms pay developing countries' suppliers' starvation wages in order to feed the West's ever increasing consumer demand, can we call that 'partnership'?
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If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
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If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.
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If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
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If you work well, the country will be in good order, and it will be a blessing to the country. The country needs good care.
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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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