Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 6069.
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
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If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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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 mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
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If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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