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Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author

“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter throughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if then you took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.”

Ifs Water Sea Ocean Hundred Mark Seven Glasses Latter Molecules If Then

Author:Lord Kelvin

“So, what we do as the game accesses the Blu-ray disc, is we take any data that was accessed and we put it on the hard drive. And if then if there is idle time, we go ahead and copy the remaining data to the hard drive. And what that means is after an hour or two, the game is on the hard drive, and you have access, you have dramatically quicker loading And you have the ability to do some truly high-speed streaming.”

Ifs Mean Two Hard Games Hours Ability Speed Access Data Copies Rays Idle Streaming High Speed Discs If Then Idle Time

Author:Mark Cerny

“If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.”

Ifs Angel Demon Sober Tutor If Then

Book:Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843

Source: Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843

“We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.”

“It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.”

People Ifs Together Lying Medicine Telling The Truth Emergencies Telling Lies If Then

Book:The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

“Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.”

Ifs Opinion Sun Fitting If Then

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.”

Ifs Giving May Mean Art Ends Reason Pleasure Subjects Produce Music Is Understood All Things Including Proof Accepted Formulas Rejected Comprehensive If Then

Book:Utilitarianism: Mill's Works

Source: Utilitarianism: Mill's Works

“If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.”

Ifs Men Giving Ends Courses Force Views Opinion Teach Clear Members Training Conscious University Practicals Developing Judgement Irrelevant Eloquence If Then

Author:John Henry Newman

“The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt... ," but "If ... then ... else.”

Ifs Biology Typical Imperatives If Then

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”

Ifs World Real Past Wonder Awareness Real World If Then Actually Living

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

Ifs Men Life Giving Should Looks Important Moments Names Advice Century Cease Changing Your Life If Then

Book:WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...

“If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.”

Ifs Men Made Ends Purpose Politics Views Sake If Then

Author:Aristotle

“The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.”

Ifs Soul Remember Joy Spirit Lying Meditation Ego Yoga Resistance Contact Treatment Meditating Reluctance If Then Ego And Soul

Book:The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

Source: The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda

“Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and acts quite differently from the way in which its members would were they isolated. If, then, we begin with the individual, we shall be able to understand nothing of what takes place in the group.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Reality Able Individual Groups Human Nature Members Mere Characteristics Association Isolated If Then

Author:Emile Durkheim

“If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.”

Ifs Bigs Past Law Energy Theory Civilization Negative Machines Quantity Quantum Equations Manipulate Gateways Quantum Theory Time Machine Negative Energy If Then

Author:Michio Kaku

“If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.”

Ifs Mean Fall Class Industry Encouragement Prosperity Productive Corn Accumulation If Then

Book:The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

Source: The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author

“It is by the path of love, which is charity, that God draws near to man, and man to God. But where charity is not found, God cannot dwell. If, then, we possess charity, we possess God, for "God is Charity" (1John 4:8)”

Ifs Men Love Inspiration Faith Found Path Draws Charity If Then Path Of Love

Author:Albertus Magnus

“If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.”

Source: The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes

“If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.”

People Ifs Knows Has Beens Government Interest Rights Ought Republican Expected Agents Organs Republican Government Republicanism If Then

Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.”

Ifs Shows Waiting Water Church Loss Wise Filled Communicate Spread Present Day Reservoirs Canals If Then

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.”