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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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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 haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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If you hear a voice within you saying, ''You are not a painter,'' then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.
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If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
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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 imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
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If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.
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If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
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If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
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If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
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If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters.
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