Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 5913.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.
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If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
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If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
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If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.
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If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
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If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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If you copy from one author, it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research.
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If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
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If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
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If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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