I Quotes
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“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”
“If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.”
“If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.”
“If we do not get our act together and transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, there is a real question as to the quality of the planet that we are going to be leaving our children and our grandchildren.”
“If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, Volume 9
“If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”
“If we do not have a basis by which we encounter undesirable outcomes, we will not come to understand the prerequisites of obtaining desirable outcomes.”
“If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.”
“If we do not have enough resources to ensure our kid to exceed us, someone else will take over their destiny that we may not like or endorse.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If we do not have food it means we have fail to cultivate the land.”
“If we do not have justice for the rule of law, then society shall be broken.”
“If we do not have peace and joy at this moment, we can at least remember some peace and joy we experienced in the past or observe the peace and joy of others. We see that well-being is possible.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights? Yet you fear the depths, and do not want to confess that you are afraid of them. It is good, though, that you fear yourselves; say it out loud that you are afraid of yourselves. It is wisdom to fear oneself.”
Source: The Red Book: Liber Novus
“If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.”
“If we do not hesitate to set sail for the deep waters of our thinking and take the time to cultivate the right words that we need to conceive and express what we feel, we can avoid many misconceptions. ("Life was a misunderstanding")”
“If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.”
“If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.”
“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
Source: Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“If we do not know our biblical history, we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes generation after generation.”
“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.”
“If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?”
“If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.”
“If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.”
Source: The futurists
“If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.”
“If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.”
Source: On War
“If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.”
“If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.”
“If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.”
Source: The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life
“If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.”
“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.”
Source: Prevailing Prayer
“If we do not love the Bible, we certainly do not love the God who gave it to us; but if we do love God, then no other book in the entire world will be comparable in our minds. When God speaks, it is the delight of our ears to hear what he says. In other books there is some truth and some error. Apart from the Bible, the best book ever written has mistakes in it. It is not possible for fallible men to write infallible books. Somehow or other we either say more than is true or less than is true. The most skillful writer does not always keep along that hairline of truth that is more difficult to tread than a razor's edge. But Scripture never errs.”
“If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author
“If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.”
“If we do not make tough decisions now, future Americans will have to make even tougher ones.”
“If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?”
“If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. No more water, fire next time.”
“If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken about, then we could not speak abouth such meaningless subjects as the 'beginning' or the 'end' of time. But, if we are semantically disturbed and objectify, then, of course, since objects have a beginning and an end, so also would 'time' have a 'beggining' and an 'end'. In such pathological fancies the universe must have a 'beginning in time' and so must have been made., and all of our old anthropomorphic and objectified mythologies follow, including the older theories of entropy in physics. But, if 'time' is only a human form of representation and not an object, the universe has no 'beginning in time' and no 'end in time'; in other words, the universe is 'time'-less. The moment we realize, feel permanently, and utilize these realizations and feelings that words are not things, then only do we acquire the semantic freedom to use different forms of representation. We can fit better their structure to the facts at hand, become better adjusted to these facts which are not words, and so evaluate properly m.o (multi-ordinal) realities, which evaluation is important for sanity.”
Source: Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
“If we do not pay attention to ourselves in our practice, then we cannot call it yoga.”
Source: The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice
“If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”
Source: The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch
“If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.”
“If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.”
“If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.”
Source: Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
“If we do not put inequality at the heart of the global development agenda, we are doomed to failure.”
“If we do not recognize that we must awaken the world within, we will never have a chance to take care of the world outside. Only through humility can we find a thread of confidence woven through the blue fabric of despair. (“Rain Man - With a sky out of control“)”
“If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.”