Quotes 3461 till 3480 of 10005.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
Source: Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007) -
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
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If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.
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If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4 -
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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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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