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If we knew where opinion ended and fact began, we should have discovered, I suppose, the absolute.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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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?
The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) Ch. 1 : The Most Precious Thing -
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
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If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
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If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
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If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
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If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.
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If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
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If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
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