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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.
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If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
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If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 22 -
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
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If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.
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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 once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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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 procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
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If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.
― St. John of the Cross
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If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would cancel all new trials, for just one year, and I would spend the money exclusively on making sure that we make the best possible use of the clinical evidence that we already have.
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
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