Quotes 3581 till 3600 of 9541.
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If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
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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 markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
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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 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 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 sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.
Moon Palace (2010) 111 -
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
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If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
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If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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