I Quotes
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“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.”
“If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.”
“If the dream is not bigger than me, I have mistaken an idea for a dream.”
“If the Dreams mean nothing, then why are you so afraid to talk about them?”
Source: First Light
“If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.”
“If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.”
“If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.”
Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton
“If the eagle flies, will the hawk tuah?”
“If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.”
Source: Ghost Story
“If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.”
“If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off.”
“If the earth could be truly shared, and people could come together to work it, there would be an end to all hunger and want, all greed and envy. The way to realize this vision was to act: words were 'nothing at all, and must die, for action is the life of all',”
Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.”
“If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.”
“If the Earth has a soul, it swims in you.”
“If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.”
“If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.”
“If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.”
“If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.”
Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy
“If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.”
“If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”
“If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive.”
“If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.”
“If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.”
“If the eating disorder is concretized by the "not-me" ED, the patient is allowed the safety to look around comers, to follow this "other self' into the kitchen; the bathroom; yes, even the bedroom; to observe. Shame and blame are reduced; curiosity is enhanced. Conceptually this is interesting. Many patients are able to observe once allowed to look. They know well who they are at these moments. Relationally, however, they have never been entitled to look, and, as a result, self-observation and understanding have been thwarted by relational constraints and consequent immediate behavioral enactments.
Ongoing, the patient is asked to consider what alternative behaviors can replace eating, purging or restricting. If the patient weren't thinking about food or weight, what else would she be thinking about? What else is needed? As the patient begins to consider concrete alternatives to symptomatic behavior, "contracts" are developed between patient and therapists.”
Source: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders
“If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.”
“If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't work it out then I would say let us work it out for you. Let's look at the lives people are able to lead, the effect of policies on the lives people are able to lead, and hence the likely effect on health and health inequalities.”
“If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.”
“If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.”
“If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.”
“If the economy has collapsed in a country, success is to put the whole burden of the collapse on those who disrupted the economy, and to restore the economy without putting any burden on those who have no blame in the economic collapse! Other than that, a solution would be immoral and unscrupulous, and such a solution can only be applied by immoral and malicious people!”
“If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.”
“If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.”
“If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.”
“If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.”
“If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.”
“If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary.”
“If the Edfu Texts contain a record of these events, as I have proposed, then we should take seriously the message they transmit, that there were survivors of the cataclysm who made it their mission to bring about: 'The resurrection of the former world of the gods. ... The re-creation of a destroyed world.'
These survivors are said to have wandered the earth, setting out and building sacred mounds wherever they went, and teaching the fundamentals of civilization, including religion, agriculture, and architecture.”
Source: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
“If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?”
Source: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“If the educated youth remain indifferent to the problems of this world, the whole human civilization is bound to tarnish.”
Source: When Humans Unite: Making A World Without Borders
“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction
“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.”
“If the education system wasn't corrupt or meant to produce more followers, rather than leaders, then it would make sense to see princes and princesses attending the same schools as everyone else.”
“If the educational system can claim anything consistently it would be that it is masterful at evoking a destructive axis of boredom and anxiety accounting for the increasing levels of mental health problems in young people.”
Source: Jump, Fall, Fly, From Schooling to Homeschooling to Unschooling
“If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.”
Source: Morals and Dogma
“If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.”
“If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.”
“If the ego is in the slightest way separated from its source, it yearns to find it again. This search comes from the remembrance of unity and plenitude. As every experience emanates from the non-experience which is our real being, the me also bears the scent of its source. This remembering is awakened through those moments of desirelessness and in deep sleep.”
Source: I Am
“If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.”
Source: The Language of the Body
“If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.”