I Quotes
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“If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.”
“If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."”
Source: Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music
“If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.”
Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?
“if we concede to exist
as a sudden broken thing not fearful enemies of love
we grow fierce as yes”
“If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.”
Source: Introduction to the Human Sciences
“If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.”
Source: The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics
“If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.”
“If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.”
“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“If we conform our behavior to God’s ancient moral prescription, we are entitled to the sweet benefits of life. But if we defy its imperatives, then death is the inevitable consequence. AIDS is only one avenue by which sickness and death befall those who play Russian roulette with God’s eternal moral law.”
Source: Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.”
“If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing
a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.”
“If We Consciously Think Positive, Express Gratitude And Keep Out Negative Thoughts, We’d Always Feel Happy”.”
“If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.”
“If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.”
“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”
Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers
“If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“If we consider men and women generally, and apart from their professions or occupations, there is only one situation I can think of in which they almost pull themselves up by their bootstraps, making an effort to read better than they usually do. When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth.”
“If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.”
“If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.”
“If we consider the call for "equal opportunity" in this light, it has a hollow ring about it.' Opportunity' implies 'choice,' yet there has never been any real choice for women. Their position as low-paid, part-time, intermittent, secondary wage earners has determined their role in the home since the beginning of he industrial revolution.”
“If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be very wonderful that their labours, however zealous or affectionate, are frequently useless. For what is the advice that is commonly given? A few general maxims, enforced with vehemence, and inculcated with importunity, but failing for want of particular reference and immediate application.”
Source: Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of the imagination. Letters. Irene. Miscellaneous poems
“If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.”
Source: Selected Writings
“If we consider this official or elite multiculturalism as an ideological state apparatus we can see it as a device for constructing and ascribing political subjectivities and agencies for those who are seen as legitimate and full citizens and others who are peripheral to this in many senses. There is in this process an element of racialized ethnicization, which whitens North Americans of European origins and blackens or darkens their 'others' by the same stroke. This is integral to Canadian class and cultural formation and distribution of political entitlement. The old and established colonial/racist discourses of tradition and modernity, civilization and savagery, are the conceptual devices of the construction and ascription of these racialized ethnicities. It is through these 'conceptual practices of power' (Smith, 1990) that South Asians living in Canada, for example, can be reified as hindu or muslim, in short as religious identities.....We need to repeat that there is nothing natural or primordial about cultural identities - religious or otherwise - and their projection as political agencies. In this multiculturalism serves as a collection of cultural categories for ruling or administering, claiming their representational status as direct emanations of social ontologies. This allows multiculturalism to serve as an ideology, both in the sense of a body of content, claiming that 'we' or 'they' are this or that kind of cultural identities, as well as an epistemological device for occluding the organization of the social....an interpellating device which segments the nation's cultural and political space as well as its labour market into ethnic communities....Defined thus, third world or non-white peoples living in Canada become organized into competitive entities with respect to each other. They are perceived to have no commonality, except that they are seen as, or self-appellate as, being essentially religious, traditional or pre-modern, and thus civilizationally backward. This type of conceptualization of political and social subjectivity or agency allows for no cross-border affiliation or formation, as for example does the concept of class.”
“If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.”
“If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.”
Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
“If we consistently eat less sugar, it actually changes our sense of sweetness.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“If we constantly focus on the stones in our mortal path, we will almost surely miss the beautiful flower or cool stream provided by a loving Father who outlined our journey.”
“If we consume too much pain, or in too potent a form, we run the risk
of compulsive, destructive overconsumption.
But if we consume just the right amount, inhibiting great pain with
little pain, we discover the path to hormetic healing, and maybe even
the occasional fit of joy.”
Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.”
Source: Framing Faith: From Camera to Pen, An Award-Winning Photojournalist Captures God in a Hurried World
“If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.”
“If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.”
“If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.”
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves”
“If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.”
Source: How to See Yourself As You Really Are
“If we continue to believe, and make decisions based on where our heart really lies, we can never make a bad decision”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“If we continue to believe as we have always believed, we will continue to act as we have always acted. If we continue to act as we have always acted, we will continue to get what we have always gotten.”
“If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.”
“If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.”
“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
“If we continue to feed a society that doesn't value individuality and human beings as they are, we begin to destroy them.”
Source: Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
“If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt standstill.”
Source: Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning
“If we continue to live as we are living, will the promised blessings be fulfilled?”
“If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.”
“If we continue to pay "bad" for "bad", bad will never finish on earth.”
Source: The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories
“If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.”
Source: Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
“If we continue to show young girls that they are being compared to other girls, we’re doing ourselves a huge disservice as a society. I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women. Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you rather than threaten you and make you feel like you’re immediately being compared to them. The only thing I compare myself to is me, two years ago, or me one year ago.”