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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
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If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
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If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
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If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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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 purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
St. John of the Cross
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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 off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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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 put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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If you read the Senate rules, there are provisions where the Senate parliamentarian can be overridden.
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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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