Quotes 481 till 500 of 1583.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
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If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
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If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.
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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
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If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
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If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
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If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
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