Quotes 161 till 180 of 458.
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If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
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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 United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
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If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
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If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
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If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
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If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
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If you laugh at that, you lower the bar, and I will limbo under it because I am a fucked-up guy!
Source: Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007) -
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
Source: The Poisonwood Bible -
Imagine having all of your freedoms taken away, being forced to work against your will, and constantly living under the threat of violence - in short, being forced to live as a slave. Sadly, this situation is a reality for millions of children, women, and men each year as part of the global human trafficking industry.
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
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In the third grade a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged.
Source: Bruce Springsteen Talking
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