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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
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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 want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
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If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.
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If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
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