Quotes 561 till 580 of 1585.
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If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation... why should you be frightened?
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If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' about the good things that happened in my life.
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If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520 -
If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
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If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
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