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If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
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If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been, More sad are those we daily see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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If somebody's going on your board, and you're going to be C.E.O., it will help if that person knows how to be C.E.O., who has done it before.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
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If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
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If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
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If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.
Source: As quoted in Awakening Indians to India
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