Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 10221.
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
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If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
Source: A Distant Mirror -
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
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If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.
Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.2 -
If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?
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If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
Source: Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19 -
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, What's working and what's not working?
Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
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