I Quotes
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“If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.”
“If man will not recognize the inequalities around him and voluntarily, through the gospel plan, come to the aid of his brother, he will find that through ‘a democratic process’ he will be forced to come to the aid of his brother. The government will take from the ‘haves’ and give to the ‘have nots.’ Both have lost their freedom. Those who ‘have,’ lost their freedom to give voluntarily of their own free will and in the way they desire. Those who ‘have not,’ lost their freedom because they did not earn what they received. They got ‘something for nothing,’ and they will neither appreciate the gift nor the giver of the gift.”
Source: The teachings of Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in a technological civilization, with greater adaptation and increasing success as his sole objectives; if we do not even consider the possibility of making a stand against these determinants, then everything will happen as I have described it, and the determinates will be transformed into inevitabilities.”
“If managers knew how deeply their behaviors could affect brain function - whether they are piling up too much work on someone or yelling at them for "motivational purposes", they would quit doing it.”
“If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.”
“If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.”
“If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, it’s because the intensity of such caring doesn’t exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective shield. I’m incapable of opening up to people in the way she does. Ma isn’t afraid of being vulnerable and doesn’t measure relationships in terms of what she can gain. If her feelings are hurt, she doesn’t hide the pain or seek revenge. She stumbles over the setback as though it’s one of life’s quirky tests of fortitude and moves on without storing any resentment.”
Source: Spiral Road
“If mankind conversed only of the things they understood, half the words might be struck out of the dictionaries.”
Source: Homeward Bound: Or, the Chase, a Tale of the Sea. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
“If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.”
“If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.”
“If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.”
Source: The myth of the machine
“If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate art of handling ideas. Psychology is now able to tell us with reasonable assurance that the most influential obstacle to freedom of thought and to new ideas is fear; and fear which can with inimitable art disguise itself as caution, or sanity, or reasoned skepticism, or on occasion even as courage.”
“If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years' standing are as effective as ever.”
Source: Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
“If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.”
“If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.”
“If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology”
Source: A Heritage of Stars
“If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.”
Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers
“If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.”
“If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.”
“If Manliness had a soundtrack, the score would be metal.”
“If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)”
Source: Nothing Like the Sun
“If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.”
“If manners say a lot about people, what do they say about you?”
Source: Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
“If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.”
“If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.”
“If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”
“If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.”
“If many people love me, then I must be important.”
Source: Actors Anonymous
“If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure”
“If marathoners finish they win.”
“If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.”
“If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today we wouldn't have focus groups and we wouldn't have one day focusing on 'change' and the next day focusing on likability. If Margaret Thatcher were campaigning, we would be treated to a smorgasbord of great ideas, proposals for the future of the country. Nobody would even be thinking about that.”
“If marijuana kills all my brain cells, then how come I can still hear them all talking to me?”
“If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.”
“If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.”
“If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.”
“If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
“If Mark Henry was the Titanic, the iceberg would've sank!”
“If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.”
“If Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand something, it’s not defeat. It’s not even something he has to accept. It’s merely a challenge he needs to engineer his way out of, and that includes human emotions and relationships.”
“If market pricing is the only legitimate test of quality, why are we still bothering with proven theorems? Why don't we just have a vote on whether a theorem is true? To make it better we'll have everyone vote on it, especially the hundreds of millions of people who don't understand the math. Would that satisfy you?”
“If marketers could uncover what is going on in our brains that makes us choose one brand over another-what information passes through our brain's filter and what information doesn't-well, that would be key to truly building brands of the future.”
“If marketing is a skeletal system,
then the sale is muscle mass.”
Source: I communicate, Therefore, I sell: “Communication is the most stable currency because it never loses its value.”
“If marketing is taking up 1/3 of your revenues or more, something is wrong. Yes you’ve gotta get the word out about your products and services, especially if you’re in a saturated market. But your products and services should attract customers like pollen attracts honeybees. The value of what your business offers should be a magnet to customers. You shouldn’t be chasing after customers begging them to do business with you.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“If marks of trauma lingered, any evidence was hidden by her robe.
But Nesta knew well how invisible wounds could be. How they could scar as deeply and badly as any physical breaking.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?”
“If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since.”
“If marriage isn't something for me, but I like living with someone or being committed, I can choose this other path as long as she's okay with it but I would hardly say that that should be what other people do. Some people want that, that written paper, that commitment and that means something to them. And I don't in the least look down on it.”
“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?”
Source: Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)