I Quotes
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“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”
Source: The House of Intellect
“If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.”
Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world
“If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.”
“If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.”
Source: A Short History Of Progress
“If civilization is to survive, the principles of the Prince of Peace must be restored. Shattered trust between nations must be revived. Most important of all, the will for peace on the part of peace-loving nations must express itself to the end that nations that may be tempted to violate their agreements and the rights of others will desist from such a cause. There must be positive endeavors to preserve peace. America hates war. America hopes for peace. Therefore, America actively engages in the search for peace.”
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13
“If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.”
“If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a Gone with the Wind 2.”
“If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.”
“If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.”
“If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.”
Source: Persons and Places
“If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.”
“If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.”
“If climate drives business results, what drives climate? 50-70% of how employees perceive their organization’s climate corresponds to the actions of one person: their manager.”
Source: Lift: Five Practices Great Managers Do Consistently: Raise Performance and Morale - See Your Employees Thrive
“If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.”
“If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters still respond to fear. Obama's campaign has been based on the implicit argument that voters no longer respond to fear. If Clinton wins both states, that probably proves Obama wrong on that point.”
“If closeness was associated with danger in the past, it may remain so as a post-traumatic stress reaction. The fear of closeness and engulfment is subtle and long-lived; we are only released from it when we work through it and practice overriding it again and again. We do this when we allow the other person to direct our love rather than controlling how much or in what way we show it. To let go of control that way is terrifying to someone who fears closeness.”
Source: 亲密关系的重建
“If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?”
“If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.”
“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
Source: The Silver Linings Playbook
“If Clyde can't pontificate, he gets mentally constipated.”
Source: When the Moon Hits Your Eye
“If co-passengers are good then it's good too to have endless journey.”
“If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.”
“If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.”
“If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.”
“If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.”
“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cock-roach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”
“If cock is male and hen is female, then the female of cockroach is ‘henroach’. Are you with me?”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“If cockroach, the oldest species on the earth can go ahead millions of years though, without a head, you too can go ahead at least a few more years from now without a tail like a lizard”
“If coffee didn't exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.”
“If coffee is for closers, gold is for prospectors.”
Source: The 10 Essential Habits of Sales Superstars: Plugging into the Power of Ten
“If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.”
“If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?”
“If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.”
“If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom of
paradox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all of
the mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong questions.”
Source: Collapsing Consciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times
“If collectivizing highly personal medical decisions is evil, then so follows that collectivized medicine is evil.”
Source: H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
“If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.”
“If colleges are going to justify themselves, they are going to have to thrive at those things that require physical proximity. That includes moral and spiritual development. Very few of us cultivate our souls as hermits. We do it through small groups and relationships and in social contexts.”
“If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.”
“If coloured lenses can potentially stop the world seeming fragmented and put an end to nightmare distortions, then the learner with autism who shows signs of visual stress deserves to be screened.”
Source: Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
“if colours are gone, they are non”
“If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.”
“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
“If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.”
“If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.”
“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy.” ~ Jon Stewart”
Source: The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
“If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.”
“If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.”
“If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine