Quotes 2061 till 2080 of 6479.
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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
The Headmistress (1945) -
If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
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If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
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If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
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If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
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