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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
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If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
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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 love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
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If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 22 -
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
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If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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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 paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
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If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
― St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
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