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“If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.”

Ifs Joy Walks Secret Knowing Mystery Sorrow Absolutes Extremes Deny Ghost Guise Deep Sorrow

Book:The Jaguar Hunter

Source: The Jaguar Hunter

“Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?”

“If you were to actually travel around schools and universities and listen in on lectures about evolution you might find a fairly substantial fraction of young people, without knowing what it is they disapprove of, think they disapprove of it, because they've been brought up to.”

People Ifs Thinking Might School Young Knowing Evolution University Lectures Fractions

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.”

Ifs Men Way Knowing Likes Mary Better Ways Hail Rosary Hail Mary

Author:Louis de Montfort

“I tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)”

Ifs Men Believe Wells Can Do Lines Knowing Photography Photograph Squares Inches Believe In Me Sculpture Acid

Author:John Ruskin

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”

Ifs World Happens Inspiring Knowing Relationship This World Positivity Being Yourself Black History Pop Music Love Sick

Author:Michael Jackson

“Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.”

Ifs Giving Might Chance Knowing Car Cost Dollars Scary Driving Formulas Lots Of Money Crash Chances Are Another Chance Formula One

Author:Lewis Hamilton

“Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.”

Ifs Men Feels Long Knowing Pursue Not Knowing

Book:He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I am the luckiest girl in the world. I learned that if I just keep a positive mental attitude, that I can go out there and do whatever I hope I can do. It's all mental in getting out there, and having confidence in myself, and having strength and knowing I can do it.”

Ifs World I Can Girl Can Do Attitude Knowing I Can Do It Mental Attitude Positive Mental Attitude Having Strength Luckiest Girl Luckiest Girl In The World

Author:Missy Franklin

“We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.”

Ifs Needs Speak Language Nations Party Knowing Britain Labour Converses Speak English Labour Party

Author:Ed Miliband

“To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and produced my final project, which meant I faxed press releases from an old Apple IIC, or whatever it was, to newspapers, not knowing if that would work or if that's how you do things.”

Ifs Night Knowing Comedy Projects Majors Presses Finals Starting Newspapers Release Apples Not Knowing Basements Dorms Press Release

Author:Eugene Mirman

“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

Ifs Trying Knowing Focus Seeing Movement Color Shapes Areas Vices Acquire Representation Abstraction Select Vice Versa Knowing Everything Amalgamation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

“How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?”

Ifs Way Stories Next Knowing Happened Photograph Documentaries Follow Up

Author:Martha Rosler

“If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.”

Source: Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s

“Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have to be an active participant in [my daughter's] education in order for her to thrive in the world.”

Ifs World Way Order Parent Knowing Daughter Active Thrive My Daughter Wealthy Participants

Author:Viola Davis

“We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.”

Ifs World Mind War Care Action Opportunity Force Nations Wish Sleep Ability Knowing Taken Sacrifice Military Thanks Nightmare Peace Of Mind Troops Limbs Our Troops Military Force Best Wishes

Author:John F. Kerry

“If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.”

Ifs Choices Knowing Knowing The Truth

Author:Walker Percy

“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.”

“People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.”

People Ifs Knows Facts Law Chance Knowing Educated

Author:Immortal Technique

“A lot of times, our guides are at the same level that we are at spiritually. We are their jobs, and they are growing through our life experiences. People have this illusion that their guides are all-knowing and all-wise, and why would we need God if we have our guides?”

People Ifs Needs Jobs Levels Knowing Wise Our Lives Growing Illusion Guides Life Experience Need God

Author:Echo Bodine

“You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've got the people that you make-up completely, who are often missing a dimension if they don't have some reference to real people. So strangers exist in this in-between space, where in not knowing them, you are creating a fiction for them, even in passing, but at the same time, there they are, with their actual bodies and their actual clothes. It's totally enticing.”

People Ifs Knows Real Body Space Fiction Knowing Rich Missing Creating Clothes Stranger Passing Passings Dimensions Not Knowing Enticing

Author:Miranda July

“Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.”

Ifs Pleasure Knowing Cold Capacity Curiosity Dull

Author:John Ruskin

“Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life.”

Ifs Happens Order Compassion Knowing Cruelty Connectedness Alleviate

Author:David S. Ware

“I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.”

People Ifs Thinking Self Jobs Used Actors Can Do Knowing Fronts Speech Conscious Asking Cameras Nerves Funeral Self Conscious Eulogy

Author:Eddie Marsan

“Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.”

Ifs Needs Should Children School Results Knowing Environment College Lows Increase Missions Income Providing Odds Lenses Attending Public Education Low Income Learning Environment

Author:Jeb Bush

“Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Important Knowing Trouble Edges You Think You Know Competencies

Author:Warren Buffett

“If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.”

Ifs Giving Believe Actors Knowing Doubt Advice Unique Shadow Give Me Decades Fearless Uniqueness One Word Words Of Advice

Author:Patrick Stewart

“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.”

Ifs Long Artist Strong Process Hours Interesting Acting Knowing Creation Ready Like You Discipline Creating Prepared Be Prepared Very Interesting Long Hours

Author:Jaime King

“Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Has Beens Father Knowing Son Source Draws Primaries Biographies Family History Eleanor Biographers Engels Primary Source

Author:Rachel Holmes

“To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that which has made me less fearful about the future. Mass extinction is a long, complicated process that we are just now beginning to understand - and likewise, we are just beginning to understand how we might prevent one.”

Ifs Thinking Long Made Facts Might Process Knowing Stage Mass Fairs Complicated Fearful Extinction Mass Extinction

Author:Annalee Newitz

“That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.”

Ifs World Should Said Knowing Possibility Bed Should Have Shame Filled

Author:Kevin Keck

“Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what you do with your capacity for belief if you don't have an object for your belief.”

Ifs Believe Belief Deals Knowing Objects Capacity Rubies

Author:K. M. Soehnlein

“Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.”

Ifs Feels Looks Whole Bigs Knowing Pieces Magic Picks Rings Statements Feel Good Layers Necklaces Earrings

Author:Molly Sims

“Sometimes it's difficult because you like some regularity in your life, but never knowing who's gonna pop up at what show, what person you might see that you don't expect to see in that city, what problem you're gonna have that night, even the problems at some of these venues, if you look at them the right way, it's an adventure. You're like a cowboy. That's the best part about being in the music industry. You get your gun and you ride your horse.”

Ifs Way Looks Persons Sometimes Shows Problem Might Night Difficult Cities Knowing Adventure Industry Gun Horse Pops Right Way Cowboy Music Industry Venues Regularity

Author:Colin Munroe

“If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric book knowing that it will come out in a song.”

Ifs Writing Important Book Seems Happens Moving Song Knowing Events

Author:Amy Ray

“The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.”

People Ifs Should Years Done Might Answers Knowing Assuming Lawyer Not Knowing Economist Great Depression Superb

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I've learned that I can only live for myself. I cannot be focused on the world's idea of who they think I am or who I'm supposed to be. I can only be the best me. And if that means that even though I seem eligible and should be in a relationship, maybe I shouldn't be right now, because I am not emotionally available. It's knowing yourself and being more in tune with who you are vs. who the world wants you to be.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Should Mean I Can Ideas Seems Knowing Right Now Who You Are Available Focused Supposed To Be I've Learned Being The Best Tunes Know Yourself

Author:Eva Marcille

“We are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.”

Ifs Feels Stills Break Knowing Too Much Equal Gender Relieved

Author:Gemma Cairney

“You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.”

Ifs Needs Years Looks Process Leader Knowing Democracy Picks Forgiving Islamic Allies Not Knowing American Democracy Intricacy English Speaking

Author:Michael Scheuer

“If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.”

Ifs Feels Loses Cases Gone Knowing Appreciate Fishes Beach Pollution Not Knowing Overfishing

Author:Aaron Peirsol

“It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.”

Ifs Writing Shows Feelings Knowing Taken Tables Lovely

Author:Peter Morgan

“I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.”

Ifs Men Feels Problem Lost Secret Behinds Knowing Creating Weapons Arguing Bullshit Accused Back When Reacting Lost You Behind My Back

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“You know you are addicted to a food if despite knowing it is bad for you and despite wanting to change, you still keep eating it. Addiction means that a craving has more control over your behavior than you do.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Knowing Behavior Eating Addiction Despite Over You Craving

Book:Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World (Large Print 16pt)

“I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week, went to school full time, opened my own small business, ended up being a multi-millionaire. If I can do it, without even knowing the language, anybody can do it. All it takes is determination, perseverance, and like Winston Churchill said: 'Never, never, never, never give up.'"”

“There's a sense of trajectories that are extraordinary about a life like this. You can reconnect with people and go back to playing with them after years and years of not even knowing if they're alive.”

People Ifs Years Knowing Alive Extraordinary Trajectory

Author:David Toop

“If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Body Happens Realizing Knowing Laughter Your Body Relief Belly Not Alone Good Laugh

Author:Brené Brown

“Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.”

“If we want to try again, then try again. The point is we have free will to act and accomplish along with the peace of knowing whatever happens is what needs to happen in order for nature to fulfill its destiny, which we are part of.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Happens Order Destiny Knowing Accomplish Free Will Try Again Whatever Happens

Author:Bryan Kest

“They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.”

Ifs Knows Trying Causes Numbers Knowing Products Who You Are Illness Mental Illness Not Knowing Spend Time Live In The Present Knowing Who You Are

Author:Naomi Judd

“Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.”

Ifs Sometimes Done Fighting Knowing Virtue Granted Steady Not Knowing Trenches Good Fight

Author:Barack Obama

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