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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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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
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
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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