Quotes 421 till 440 of 1147.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.
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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
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If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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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 only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
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If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our music in an inspirational way. I'm here for a reason, and I was given a talent, so I'll continue to try to use it.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing -
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
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