I Quotes
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“If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.”
“If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.”
“If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!”
“If one partner gives himself completely, he breaks down the barriers of the other, however strong they may be. Because the act of giving means: "I trust you". The other, who to begin with may feel rather intimidated, wanting to prove things which aren't even under discussion, is unarmed by the spontaneity of such an attitude, and relaxes. At that moment, true sexual energy comes into play.”
Source: Warrior of the Light -
“If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.”
“If one path isn’t bearing the fruit that you wish to consume, create a new one. As the master of your reality and destiny, you absolutely have the power to make a new way for yourself. Why must you wait for something else to do that for you?”
“If one path of a fork promised you oblivion, it didn't really matter what the other path held in store.”
Source: The Shadow of Kyoshi
“If one permits the past to die, so will their future.”
“If one person changes in a relationship, the dynamics shift. So even if you’re the only person who’s willing to make some changes—for now—that’s enough.”
Source: The Beauty of Conflict for Couples: Igniting Passion, Intimacy and Connection in your Relationship
“If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world.”
“If one person decides to change, the whole group will change.”
“If one person dreams alone... It is only a dream. When many people dream together... It is the beginning of a new reality.”
“If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains”
“If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.”
Source: American Contempt for Liberty
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.”
“If one person in an organization decides to be responsible, the whole organization will be responsible.”
“If one person in the household is preoccupied with thoughts of worries, then other people in the household will be affected by the vibrations of each others, and what if he were to become free from worries then?”
Source: Worries
“If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.”
“If one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but if a lot of people are unkind to animals (especially in the name of profit) the cruelty is condoned and will be defended by otherwise intelligent people.”
“If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?”
“If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.”
“If one person “wastes” away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“If one political party or a family keeps on ruling a nation for decades continuously, it simply means – the ruler is corrupt at its core and the subjects are born with a slave-mentality and greed syndrome.”
“If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.”
“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.”
Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
“If one proceeds philosophically before proceeding poetically, and this is central to the philosopher, pleasure is crushed, But if one begins by having pleasure, it is like knowing how to swim: one never forgets it [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989].”
“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”
“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile
“If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.”
“If one reads attentively, Wittgenstein writes as much in one of the rare pas- sages in which he makes use (in English) of the term “to constitute” with respect to the rules of chess:
What idea do we have of the king of chess, and what is its relation to the rules of chess? . . . Do these rules follow from the idea? No, the rules are not something contained in the idea and got by analyzing it. They constitute it. . . . The rules constitute the “freedom” of the pieces. (Wittgenstein 5, p. 86)
Rules are not separable into something like an idea or a concept of the king (the king is the piece that is moved according to this or that rule): they are immanent to the movements of the king; they express the autoconstitution process of their game. In the autoconstitution of a form of life what is in question is its freedom.”
Source: The Omnibus Homo Sacer
“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”
“If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.”
“If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.”
“If one realizes variance and contrast with or between the critique and contempt, it reaches a route of ethical knowledge, which leads life on the right track.”
“If one really believed in the reliability and permanence of an international arrangement, such schemes for providing the authority with 'hostages' might be more efficient, even more humane, than providing it with bombers and shock troops. One could even go further and let the force have a monopoly of critical medicines to use for bacterial warfare on a transgressor country. As soon as it starts an epidemic, it send its medical units in to make sure that no one suffers who cooperates.”
“If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!”
“if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery. It is because they can't; they are bound. And nobody on earth knows what are the bonds that bind them except those two.”
Source: KATHERINE MANSFIELD Premium Collection: 160+ Short Stories & Poems (Literature Classics Series): The Complete Short Stories and Poetry of Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, The Garden Party, The Dove’s Nest, Something Childish, In a German Pension, The Aloe, Poems at the Villa Pauline, Child Verses...
“If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.”
“If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.”
“If ‘one’ really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.”
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.”
“If one refused the other’s request because one couldn’t trust the other party, then the relationship of trust would break down completely.”
“If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.”
Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
“If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.”
“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“If one religion were 'true,' we would expect to see, even if only once in all of recorded history, a religious missionary that had stumbled upon a culture that shared the same revelations — brought forth by the same deity.”
“If one resolves to be what one is, origins, filiation and all traces in general seem an undesirable supplement.
Naive, captive, subliminal duplicity. Whatever happens, the double -that internalized otherness - dissociates itself from one's official being. In the face of this internal division, how is it with the unity of the real world?
The distance of the child from those who see him as innocent, the wicked delight that takes root in the form of cunning, the innate sense of having his own preserve, which will never leave him, even if he becomes a civilized being. 'The point at which the intuition forms in the child that other people exist who think differently is the point at which he learns to lie.'
Later on, he will perfect that duplicity by learning to lie to himself.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take.”
“If one's heart is small, all their sufferings even as large as a house can only be crammed in that small corner. But if one's heart were as vast as heaven and earth, then even if their troubles were as large as a mountain, they would become nothing more than a droplet of water in the endless sea.
心有一隅，房子大的烦恼就只能挤在一隅中，心有四方天地，山大的烦恼也不过是沧海一粟”
Source: 杀破狼 [Sha Po Lang]