I Quotes
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“If, again, the most superficial introspection teaches the physiologist that his conscious life is dependent upon the mechanical adjustments of his body, and that inversely his body is subjected with certain limitations to his will, then it only remains for him to make one assumption more, namely, that this mutual interdependence between the spiritual and the material is itself also dependent on law, and he has discovered the bond by which the science of the matter and the science of consciousness are united into a single whole.”
Source: Unconscious Memory
“If age teaches you anything, then one of its lessons is certainly not to hurry if you're already late.”
“If age was temperature,
You'd be getting hotter
Happy 60th degree
You, hot shotter”
“If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.”
“If aggression pays off, aggressors will take note.
-- Kaja Kallas, Estonia Prime Minister”
“If aging and maturity doesn't teach you to be humble, loneliness and neglect will teach you its importance”
“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”
“if Ai calculations are correct, we will destroy all life on our planet within 300 years unless we adjust our global economic model to a more sustainable one with two non-negotiable features: 1. We cease to pollute Earth's waters and clean it up. 2. We create an energy neutral economy.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“If aid
I cannot, I can mightily avenge.
On irremediable wrong I shrink not
To pile immortal ruin, there to lie
As trophies on a carven tomb: nor less
For that no memory of my deed survive,
Nor any eye to see, nor tongue to tell.”
Source: Demeter: A Mask
“If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.”
“If Aims impel these Astral Ones The ones allowed to know Know that which makes them as forgot As Dawn forgets them now”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“If air moves everything,
Who moves the air?
Drop your thinking cap
Meditate!
Slip into the gap
Creator self realised...
Creativity #Mickeymized!”
“If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?”
“If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.”
“If Akea was born in another century, he would be Rome’s most vicious gladiator, he would be in his element swinging a huge battle-ax in the middle of any ancient battlefield, he would be the caveman who goes out on his own and comes back with a dead sabertooth tiger over his shoulder to feed the starving village.”
Source: You. Me. Bed. Now.
“If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.”
“If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”
“If Al Gore loses his brazen attempt to win on the dimples, one reason will be that he finally convinced enough Republicans to fight like Democrats.”
“If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.”
“If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.”
“If alcohol is legal, I don't see why people still have a ban on marijuana.”
“If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.”
“If Alessandro and Rosy are working from a disadvantage in terms of product recognition, they have put generations of accumulated experience into practice to fill the menu with dozens of little tastes of Como. They make fragrant, full-flavored stocks from the bones and bodies of perch and chub. They cure whitefish eggs in salt, creating a sort of freshwater bottarga, ready to be grated over pasta and rice. Shad is brined in vinegar and herbs, whitefish becomes a slow-cooked ragù or a filling for ravioli, and pigo and pike form the basis of Mella's polpettine di pesce, Pickled, dried, smoked, cured, pâtéd: a battery of techniques to ensure that nothing goes to waste. If you can make it with meat, there's a good chance Alessandro and Rosy have made it with lake fish.
And then there's missoltino, the lake's most important by-product, a staple that stretches back to medieval times and has been named a presidio by Slow Food, a designation reserved for the country's most important ingredients and food traditions. The people still making missoltino can be counted on a single hand. Alessandro guts and scales hundreds of shad at a time, salts the bodies, and hangs them like laundry to dry under the sun for forty-eight hours or more. The dried fish are then layered with bay leaves, packed into metal canisters, and weighed down. Slowly the natural oils from the shad escape and bubble to the surface, forming a protective layer that preserves the missoltino indefinitely.
It can be used as a condiment of sorts, a weapons-grade dose of lake umami to be detonated in salads and pastas. In its most classic preparation, served with toc, a thick, rich scoop of polenta slow cooked in a copper pot over a wood fire, it tastes of nothing you've eaten in Italy- or anywhere else.”
Source: Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture
“If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.”
“If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”
“If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.”
“If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.”
“If Alice had a post-engagement policy, it was to pass.”
Source: Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis
“If aliens are watching us through telescopes, they're going to think the dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge?”
“If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.”
“If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.”
“If aliens do not exist in this universe, then you do not exist in this universe as well! If you exist in this universe, then aliens exist in this universe too! The huge universe that created you also created aliens, it's that simple!”
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.”
“If aliens wanted to exterminate us, they wouldn't send a fleet of spaceships or a Deathstar. They'd just send one guy with a deadly virus.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation, a question of atheism, a question of the tower of Babel, which is constructed without God's help, not to reach to the heavens, but to bring the heavens down to earth.”
Source: The Rebel
“If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.”
“If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“If all are created in the divine image, then our images of God must be fluid and multifarious.”
“If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.”
“If all authority truly comes from God, as the majority of flatterers claim, then let's put all the pastors and sheikhs as presidents of every country.”
“If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?”
“If all bank loans were paid, there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation. We are absolutely without a permanent money system.”
“If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.”
“If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.”
Source: The works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of essays, humorous, moral, and literary: with his life, written by himself
“If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.”
“If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.”
Source: Husserl, shorter works
“If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.”
Source: Christianity and Liberalism
“If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.”