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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
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If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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