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If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
Source: The Headmistress (1945) -
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
Source: The World of Mathematics (1956) -
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
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If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don’t think it would be around.
Source: The New York Times (26-3-2016) -
If Senator Reid had come to me and said, 'This is a problem,' which he never did, I would have said, 'Let's talk about it.' I would have said, 'Let's bring in the Intelligence Committee or the leaders, and let's talk about it in a civil, a dignified, a respectful way.
Source: Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session, Fox News, November 1, 2005. -
If so, our posture would be as follows: we published the story and said it was true, but now we are going to nominate it for a Pulitzer — now that's serious business.
Source: Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
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