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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
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If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
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If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.
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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.
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If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
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If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
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If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
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If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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