I Quotes
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“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.”
“If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.”
“If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.”
“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
“If the nearly one-and-a-half million babies aborted in America each year could, somehow, vote, chameleon candidates would find fresh reason to be concerned about abortion, whereas now they are unconcerned.”
“If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.”
“If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.”
Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans
“If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.”
Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.”
Source: Selected Addresses of Frederick Douglass
“If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?”
“If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.”
“If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.”
“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
“If the new building is generally recognisable as falling within a mnemotype category then that mnemotype is adjusted to accommodate the novel elements in the building. The mnemotype can be considered as a template with adjustable edges. Each new architectural experience fractionally changes our perception of the whole spectrum of architecture in much the same way that T.S. Eliot considered every new poem to change the whole corpus of poetry. However, a building which allegedly belongs to a given mnemotype, but which threatens radically to change the shape of the template, is frequently greeted with hostility and rejected as an aberration.”
Source: The Dynamics of Delight
“If the new charging is going on [for next life by wrong belief that 'This is mine'], while [past life created] karma is being discharged in this life, then there is 'inner turmoil', but if there is only discharge [in this life and charging is stopped]; there is inner peace.”
Source: Autobiography Of Gnani Purush A.M.Patel
“If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.”
“If the new information is consonant with our beliefs, we think it is well founded and useful: "Just what I always said!" But if the new information is dissonant, then we consider it biased or foolish: "What a dumb argument!" So powerful is the need for consonance that when people are forced to look at disconfirming evidence, they will find a way to criticize, distort, or dismiss it so that they can maintain or even strengthen their existing belief. This mental contortion is called the "confirmation bias.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.”
“If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there’s one thing we authors are good at, it’s hand-waving.”
“If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties.”
Source: The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation
“If the news is that important, it will find me.”
“If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.”
“If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!”
“If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.”
“If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.”
“If the next generation of nanotechnology could be used in medicine to repair organs and tissue from inside the human body, then it could just as easily be programmed to destroy them, making it the ultimate weapon of assassination.
Imagine clouds of these things flying to their targets to either be breathed in like a virus or ingested with food or drink, and then creating fatal haemorrhages or lesions that lead to death from apparently natural causes.”
Source: Mortlake and Other Stories
“If the next man's education level makes you feel inferior, that's an inferiority complex. Inferiority starts with self-esteem.”
“If the next record is no better than Gish, then we've failed.”
“If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?”
Source: The Whole Woman
“If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.”
Source: Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”
“If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.”
Source: Altar Ego
“If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.”
“If the normal portolano is indeed derived from the lost atlas of Marinus of Tyre, then it follows that other high-quality maps of regions much further afield than the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and indeed a world map, might also have been preserved by the Arabs -- for we know from Ptolemy's testimony that other Marinus maps, including a world map, did once exist. It will therefore do no harm to keep an open mind to the possibility that the portolan world maps that began to appear during the century after the Carta Pisane, might also have been influenced by earlier 'Tyrian sea-fish' maps of Phoenician origin. Christopher Columbus, whose passionate belief in lands across the Atlantic lead to his 'discovery' of the New World, seems to hint at a Phoenician connection when he describes one of the inspirations for his journey:
'Aristotle in his book On Marvellous Things reports a story that some Carthaginian merchants sailed over the Ocean Sea to a very fertile island ... this island some Portuguese showed me on their charts under the name Antilia.'
Antilia first appears on a portolan chart of 1424. It is a mysterious presence there, a riddle.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“If the North American continent was broad ("high, wide, and lonesome"), then Mexico was tall. High, narrow, and lonesome. Europeans conquering North America hustled west, where the open land lay. And the Europeans settling Mexico hustled north. Where the open land was.
Immigration, the drive northward, is a white phenomenon.
White Europeans conceived of and launched El Norte mania, just as white Europeans inhabiting the United States today bemoan it.”
Source: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
“If the North Korean side shows no sincerity in solving the nuclear weapon, abduction and missile issues, then the likelihood of normalization of diplomatic relations is very slim.”
“If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!”
“If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.”
“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
“If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.”
Source: Parthian Words
“If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.”
“If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.”
“If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.”
“If the NRA keeps messing with the President's daughters, they're going to have to start worrying about Michelle Obama's guns.”
“If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.”
Source: PAUL HALMOS Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics: Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics
“If the nuclear dossier is referred to the U. N. Security Council, Iran will have to resume uranium enrichment.”
“If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.”
“If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll probably be going a lot faster over time, and one day they can be a lot bigger than us.”