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If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
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If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.Source: The Devil Is an Ass Act IV, scene 1. -
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
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If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
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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'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
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If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
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