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“An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.”

Ifs Men Firsts May Real Shows Might Religion Dies Successful He Man Understood Madness Warm Operations Description

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

Ifs Use Hands Suffering Order Dies Justice Power Sun East Firm Diminish Astonishing Sun Set

Author:Albert Camus

“... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.”

Ifs Life Humans Death Dies Easy Difficult My Own Respect Murder Human Life My Own Life Life Death

Author:Albert Camus

“I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Dies Ears Sigh Worms Slides Corpses Daisies

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persuaded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Action Motivation Dies Passion Goes On Men And Women Princess Intervals Been In Love

Author:Laurence Sterne

“What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.”

Ifs Men World Wells Enough Order Dies Wish Generations Air Fool Please Idiot Wages

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface.”

Ifs Way Want Needs Earth Moving Dies Bones Surface Buried Fossils

Author:Louise Leakey

“I will die if I lose you, but I will die if I wait longer.”

Ifs Dies Choices Lost Waiting Loses Dying

Book:Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah

Source: Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah

“I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.”

“I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Looks Different Beautiful Dies First Time Vote Glasses Boxes Globes Ballots Before I Die

Author:Sojourner Truth

“If a girl breaks up with me, I want her to just die, just be dead. Not 'cause I hate her so much as it's just easier for when my friends go, 'Hey, what happened?' 'Oh, she's dead. I'd still be with her, but she's dead. What can I do? She was loving me, but she's dead.'”

Ifs Want Stills Hate Dies Girl Causes Break Happened Easier My Friends Dating I Hate Hey Loving Me Funny Dating Hate Her I Hate Her

Author:Adam Sandler

“A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.”

Ifs Men Dies Rich Right Time Widows Speculators

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“If you live, live free or die like the trees, standing up.”

Ifs Dies Tree Standing Live Free

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“I would die to record in space. That would be the coolest. If I got the option of, going into outer space and hanging out there for a day, and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. I'd be happy just hanging out between the moon and the Earth, getting a view.”

Ifs Home Might Would Be Today Earth Dies Next Opportunity Waiting Space Views Technology Records Dying Tomorrow Moon Hanging Out Next Day Coming Back Back Home Outer Space Waiting Around

Author:Ariel Pink

“Man is taking over the forests and polluting the oceans, the animal species are threatened. I try to contribute as much as I can. We're really messing up our environment. I try to get people more aware of what's going on so that they can, even in a local way, try to prevent pollution to their lakes and rivers and prevent nuclear dumping in the oceans - it's bad enough that they're doing it in residential areas, but putting it in the ocean! Eventually it's going to pollute our food resources and, if the ocean dies, we're gone.”

“It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.”

People Ifs Important Remember Dies Turns Internet Affected Hospitals Equipment Remember When Infrastructure Attacking Turn Off

Author:Edward Snowden

“There are too many possibilities, if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.”

Ifs Humans Dies Human Beings Possibility Normal Being There

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”

Ifs Wells Dies Hours Dying Lunch

Author:Epictetus

“The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.”

Ifs Thinking Book Kids Dies Stuff Fantasy Bother Chronicles Narnia Fantasy Books

Book:Alif the Unseen

Source: Alif the Unseen

“Osama bin Laden has hired 10 look-alikes. Now, how hard up do you have to be before you take that job? There's no way to win! If Osama dies, you don't get paid. If you're found, you get killed.”

Ifs Way Looks Hard Jobs Dies Found Winning Paid Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Found You

Author:Jay Leno

“Attack if you can attack, defend if you can't attack, flee if you can't defend, surrender if you can't flee, die if you can't surrender!”

Ifs Dies Surrender

Author:Sima Yi

“To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.”

Ifs Would Be Dies Powerful Emotion Paint Deeper Technique Superficial Before I Die Superficial Things

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.”

Ifs May Facts Dies Brain Authority Dresses Size Cells Affected Shrinks Shrinking Brain Cells

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.”

Ifs Children Dies Ignorance Terror Folly Caretakers

Author:Mason Cooley

“The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.”

People Ifs Dies Company Leader Worst Ready Circumstances Quiet Happenings Management Focused Bad Things Transition Ready To Die Wiring Unassuming

Author:James C. Collins

“If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Ifs Feels States Dies Sea Ocean Sick Our Future Starfish

Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

Ifs Kind May Persons Said Moments Age Dies Beauty Objects Expression Flower Taste Shining Mere Old Age Features Maturity Sentiments Fades Literal Refined

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.”

Ifs Love Dies Fall Periods Fruit Maturity Precise Neglected

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.”

Ifs Men Should Long Dies Wise Revolution All Things Fortune Slave Series Pursuit Titles Great Men Ancestry Descent Epitaph Topsy Turvy

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.”

Ifs Thinking Men Stories Guy Dies Found Study Guitar Attractive Related Accordions

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.”

Ifs Dies Left Freedom Liberty

Author:Madame Roland

“The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.”

Ifs Should Children Said I Can Remember Dies Father Jesus Heaven Boys Gone Sky Dying Masters Messages My Children Reaching Monument Remember You Remembers You Leading Me

Author:Dwight L. Moody

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