Quotes 581 till 600 of 1585.
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If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919) -
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
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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.
Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001) -
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.
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If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
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If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
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If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
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If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''
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If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958) -
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
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