Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 6052.
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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.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4 -
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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