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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
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If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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If everyone were a good person, it'd obviously be a better world.
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If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
Drifting and losing his mastery,
Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
And binds the chain with which he will be bound.De Consolatione Philosophia -
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
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