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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
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If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''Good morning'' at total strangers.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. You're not paying attention to what's happening in the universe around you.
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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
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If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
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If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
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