Quotes 741 till 760 of 2111.
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
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If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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If something can go wrong it will.
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If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Source: What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life (1998) -
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Source: Anatomy of an Illness (1979) -
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
Source: Reported in New York Magazine (April 29, 1996), v. 29, no. 17, p. 13. -
If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
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If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.
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If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
― Alfonso X of Castile
X (also occasionally Alphonso, Alphonse, or Alfons, 23 November&# (1221 - 1284) -
If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
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If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
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If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.
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If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!
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If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained... it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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