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“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Made Would Be Young Cases Anxiety First Time Meetings Studios Productive Anxious Nervousness Amazing People Meeting Someone

Author:Rick Rubin

“Sooner or later there will be a nuclear 9/11 [by Islamic terrorists] in an American city or that of a US ally... A terrorist nuclear attack against an American city could take many forms. A worst case scenario would be the detonation of a nuclear device within a city. Depending upon the size and sophistication of the weapon, it could kill hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.”

“I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Actors Causes Cases Concern Hollywood British Villain Casting

Author:Alfred Molina

“If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.”

Ifs Giving Would Be Actors Loses Cases Successful Security Movie Being Successful

Author:Ang Lee

“Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.”

Ifs Believe Important Happens Would Be I Believe Loss Views Situation Cases Imagine Worst Position I Believe In Confusion Trading Scenarios Worst Case Scenario

Author:Gil Blake

“I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.”

“In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here”

Ifs Would Be Justice Cases Pursue Australia Penalties Death Penalty Alabama

Author:Troy King

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.”

Humans Would Be Quality Cases Records Achieve Type Survival Cancer Expected Cures Treatment Quality Of Life Chemotherapy Remission

Author:John Diamond

“Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.”

Source: Journal of Discourses

“What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer.”

Ifs Knows Men Would Be Law Work Cases Example Periods Labor Slavery Sells Slave Lifetime Fixed Temporary Capitalist Maximum Employers Lifelong Working Man Continental English Law

Book:German socialist philosophy

Source: German socialist philosophy

“Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.”

Would Be Walks Cases Huge Cost Benefits Iraq Storm Desert Parks Regimes Modest Liberating Regime Change Walks In The Park Desert Storm

Author:Kenneth Adelman

“It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a member of the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the principle on which all our political systems are founded, which is, that the people have in all cases, a right to determine how they will be governed. This right must be considered as an ingredient in the original composition of the general government, which, though not expressed, was mutually understood. . .”

Source: A view of the Constitution of the United States of America

“People will tell us that without the consolations of religion they would be intolerably unhappy. So far as this is true, it is a coward's argument. Nobody but a coward would consciously choose to live in a fool's paradise. When a man suspects his wife of infidelity, he is not thought the better of for shutting his eyes to the evidence. And I cannot see why ignoring evidence should be contemptible in one case and admirable in the other.”

People Men Should Would Be Eye Cases Wife Fool Evidence Argument Unhappy Paradise His Eyes Suspects Coward Infidelity Consolation Admirable

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.”

Men Believe Might Would Be Games I Believe Chance Cases Events Ignorant Pleasant Confused Great Men Quantity Probability Speculation Calculations

Book:Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

Source: Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot

“The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.”

Ifs Way Trying Littles Ideas Ends Would Be Fall Process Cases Source Keys Balance Code Pens Artificial Intelligence Artificial Explosions Accelerate Rewriting Tipping Tilt Tipping Point

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.”

“Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.”

Done Would Be Cases Calm Contemplation Abstract Justified Correctness

Book:Magick: In Theory and Practice

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case.”

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.”

Ifs Men Mind May Body Would Be Dark Cases Divine Pure Elements Ideals Screens Superiors Substance Abstract Spheres Exertion Partition Opaque

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: Whatever is formed of matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with that individual matter.”

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Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.”

Ifs Littles Sometimes Would Be Law Cases Heard Skills Intelligent Educated Layman

Author:George Sutherland

“In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that 'learned subservience.'”

Ifs Men Enough Would Be Together Black Community Cases Crime He Man Smart Agree Prison Rap Sentences Despite Accused Being Smart Black Community Subservience

Author:Warren Farrell

“I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.”

Want Giving Shows Would Be Lasts Opportunity Left Cases Fans Stage Couple Fame Stealing Hopefully Halls Honour Hall Of Fame

Author:Gail Kim

“If NATO troops walk in Crimea, they will immediately deploy their forces there. Such a move would be geopolitically sensitive for us because, in this case, Russia would be practically ousted from the Black Sea area. We'd be left with just a small coastline of 450 or 600km, and that's it!”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts Has Beens Would Be Sound Interesting Deals Careers Cases Records Mines Gold Versions Loser Indication Platinum

Author:Beck

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.”

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.”

Years Firsts Soul Would Be Mother Dies Cases Thirds Paid Debt Disaster Settling Score Misfortunes New Year Joy Luck Club

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.”

Years Happens Would Be Able Three Winning Felt Sports Half Cases Higher Finals Finished Reaching Realising Three Years Juniors Australian

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.”

Would Be Able Cases Virtue One Day Sufficient

Author:Confucius

“There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.”

Men Humans Has Beens Would Be Cases Ashamed Suspicion Injured Intercourse Knavery Perfidy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.”

Men Writing Believe Would Be Cases Novel Greater Duty Ten Leaving Nine Merit Unwritten

Book:Varia

Source: Varia

“A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.”

Ifs Believe Two Whole Would Be Winning I Believe Loses Pay Marriage Cases Bitter Alternatives Fulfillment High Prices Bad Marriage Bitter Experience

Author:Fannie Hurst

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”

Long Stories Would Be Father Lines Cases Tricks Peculiar Storyteller Long Life Obsessive Yiddish Long Story

Author:Stephen Greenblatt

“I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.”

Thinking Years Ends Might Would Be Lasts Life Is Cases Five Terrible Hundred Glad Coming To An End

Author:Gore Vidal

“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”

Men May Would Be Law Cases Taken Ignorance Excuse Every Man Cognizant

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later.”

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Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

“In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.”

World Would Be Values Individual Practice Cases Ideals Add Ideal World

Author:Gary Hamel

“Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods. It would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to tax) but "to bind us in all cases whatsoever," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious, for so unlimited a power can belong only to God.”

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.”

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Author:Denis Diderot

“Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.”

Way Book Hands Would Be Cases Ought Deserve

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it.”

Has Beens Would Be Accepting Cases Honesty Needed Injustice Favors Favour Pardon Unwilling

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.”

People Knows Mean Helping Happens Would Be Realizing Cases Good Things Entertainment Muscles Do You Know Permit Entertaining Filmmaking Mean People

Author:Ken Burns

“Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.”

“We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.”

Should Wells Hands Would Be Spirit Cases Prove Authority Direct Method Possession Peculiar Good Work Antiquity Invoke Redeeming Concise

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?”

“All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.”

Writing Has Beens Book Stories Would Be Felt Deals Healing Cases Issues Possibility Serious Painful Excited Memoir Chosen Empowering Very Happy

Author:Deborah Reber

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