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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
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If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome - my last tour almost caused it.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''Good morning'' at total strangers.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
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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 lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
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If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
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If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
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If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
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If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
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If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
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If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act.
At Live8 (2 July 2005) as reported in BBC News (4 July 2005) -
If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
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