Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 5933.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
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If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.
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