Quotes 181 till 200 of 559.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
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If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.
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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.
The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond -
If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.
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If something can go wrong it will.
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If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
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If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
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If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
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If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.
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