I Quotes
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“If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.”
“If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.”
“If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.”
“If a lady offers you a kindness, you absolutely have to accept”
Source: My 12 Months a Troll
“If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.”
“If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”
Source: Imaginary Obligations
“If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.”
“If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.”
“If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.”
Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters
“If a law violates a person’s liberty, is it not our duty to disobey? Is it not your ethical responsibility to act? Did you not join this profession to help and serve kids?”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
“If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.”
“If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.”
“If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise”
“If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.”
“If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.”
“If a leader for the right reasons is blessed by God, even the people he leads will be blessed by God as well. But if the leader is cursed by God because of iniquity, even the people he leads will be cursed as well.”
“If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.”
“If a LEADER is using their time wisely, they don't have time to look for attention or feed an ego. The reward just happens as a pleasant byproduct.”
“If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.”
Source: Sweet Success: 12 Proven Habits of Winning Leaders
“If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.”
“If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.”
Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s
“If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.”
“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”
“If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.”
“If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.”
“if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone”
“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”
Source: Midwinterblood
“If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.”
“If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.”
“If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.”
“If a lifetime is North America then I have reached Kansas.”
Source: It Blows You Hollow
“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”
Source: Collected Columns
“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“If a lion cub thinks it is a kitten, it will grow up catching mice.”
“If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.”
“If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.”
“If a lion kills a gazelle, the Universe does not judge the lion as evil and the gazelle as good. The energy and matter of the gazelle is transferred to the lion. Because we are all connected as one, what appears to be death is in fact transformation and rebirth.”
Source: The Six Principles of Enlightenment and Meaning of Life
“If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.”
“If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.”
“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
“If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time: Or
“If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.”
Source: The Story of the Soul
“If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”
“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, 'It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.'”
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.”
Source: Porterhouse Blue
“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”
“If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.”
“If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.”