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If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
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If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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If you reveal your secret to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
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If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
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If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
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If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.
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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
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If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.
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If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.
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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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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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