Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 6002.
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If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.
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If you have two groups of people and you say one is inferior to the other, which is a lie, then the only way to maintain the lie is through violence or the threat of violence.
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If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
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If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
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If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
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If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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