Quotes 7281 till 7300 of 20393.
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
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If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.
A Walk in the Woods -
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.
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If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
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If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.
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If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.
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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
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