Quotes 81 till 100 of 223.
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If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
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If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be ten feet deep in horse manure.
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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 we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
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If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.
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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.
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If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.
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In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
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In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
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