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“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.”

“If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put an end to, they compel them to fulfil their vows.”

Ifs Persons Ends Land Scary Sentences Vow Backsliding Excommunication

Author:Pope Innocent III

“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”

“What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Race Quality Destiny Land Succeed Bigger Britain Suspects Magnificent Corresponding

Book:The Selected Letters of William James

Source: The Selected Letters of William James

“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.”

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time.”

Ifs Feels Mean Care Past Half Watches Land Bed Travel Late Don't Care I Don't Care Live By Strict Eleven

Author:David Attenborough

“Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.”

Ifs Stills Land Labor Tools Absolutes Lays Silent Forgotten Intuition Intellect Pragmatic Uncompromising

Book:The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas

Source: The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas

“The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.”

Ifs World Whole Earth Land Down And Whole World Plenty Relax Tunnels Drains Toiling

Author:Will Cuppy

“On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Joy Turns Society Land Source Drink Travel Ships Boards Ashamed Awkward Sixty Flirting Gloves Soda Brandy

Book:John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

Source: John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

“In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.”

Ifs Art Country Passion Land Lovers Homosexuality Homosexual

Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.”

People Ifs Years Matter Enough Care Lasts Humanity Land Abuse No Matter What Opposition I Care Ridicule One Word Wildlife If You Care Future Of Humanity

Author:Allan Savory

“I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.”

“The whole land seems aroused to discussion on the province of woman, and I am glad of it. We are willing to bear the brunt of thestorm, if we can only be the means of making a break in that wall of public opinion which lies right in the way of woman's rights, true dignity, honor and usefulness.”

Ifs Way Mean Whole Seems Lying Opinion Break Rights Land Willing Wall Bears Honor Dignity Glad Discussion Womens Rights Public Opinion Usefulness Provinces

Author:Angelina Grimke

“I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.”

“And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the rivers and the lakes and the land and our society and our ways of living to the point where we now wonder if the human race will survive.”

Ifs World Way Humans Energy Deals Race Wonder Land Rivers Human Race Lakes Our Society Time And Energy

Book:Buddhism Plain and Simple

Source: Buddhism Plain and Simple

“We must life the level of understanding both at home and abroad of what the free enterprise system is, what it is not, and how it benefits the people who live under it. We must somehow get these elementary truths across, not only to the people of other lands but to millions here at home who do not understand it, if we are to generate a powerful demand and desire for its retention.”

People Ifs Home Desire Understanding Levels Powerful Millions Land Demand Benefits Enterprise Free Enterprise Retention

Author:Philip D. Reed

“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.”

Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis”

Ifs Men Doe Said War Reason Philosophy Seems Causes Natural Rich Land Effects Kings Relation Relate Dependent Evident Rich Man Comets Vapor

Author:Albertus Magnus

“But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.”

Ifs Knows Heart May Children Long Made Whole Girl Jesus Nations Christ Boys Land Holy Glory Blessed Dear Enlightened Yield Serving God Brethren Boy And Girl Heathen Valuation Holy Days

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.”

“Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.”

“Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?”

Ifs Hands Desire Pleasure Steps Land Trust Guides Surrender Commit Desert Hands Of God Promised Land Blessedness

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Country Journey Land Citizens Agree Trade Convinced Odd Plato Reminders Reminding Sculptors Bakers Free Country

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.”

Ifs Giving Should Persons Country Pay Support Land Produce Equal Labour Divided Quantity Possessed Evident Subsistence Being Equal

Author:Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels on anyone whom they wish to destroy. ... [Academic professionals are the only person competant to differentiate between honest independents and the Communists.] This is our responsibility. It is not a pleasant task. But if it is left to outsiders, the distinction is not likely to be made and those independent critics of social institutions among us who are one of the glories of a true university could be silenced.”

“My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.”

“If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.”

Ifs Love Wells Sex Community Land Couple Equal Dignity Commit Offering Ruling Our Community

Author:Barack Obama

“Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.”

Ifs Father Heaven Effort Cities Plans Land New York Empty Towns Guidance Grids

Author:Richard Sennett

“If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...”

Ifs Want Long Values Freedom Sun Land Married Appreciate Sailor Miners

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you wish to live exactly as you please, the Angkar will put aside a small piece of land for you.”

Ifs Wish Pieces Land Please Small Pieces

Author:Pol Pot

“The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.”

Ifs Wells May Ends Air Sea Land Waste Messages Resources Regard Environmental Finals Drawing Quarters Consumption Curtains Stewardship Undisciplined

Author:Richard J. Foster

“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”

Ifs Looks Certain Energy Religious Sea Land Mankind Fine Civilization Office Letters Posts Look Up Addresses Meter Guarded Artillery Post Office Gluten Cheapness

Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to tell it because you know how they connect, then it's a thread that will land right in your mind, body and soul.”

Ifs Knows Mind Soul Facts Stories Body Know How Land Thread Mind Body Mind Body And Soul

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.”

Ifs Mind Mean Able Effort Land Protect Species Saving Massive Tigers Hunts Iconic Acres Habitat Pandas

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.”

Ifs Has Beens Doubt Land Amount Research University Developing Grants Yield Lots Of Money Extensions Small Amounts Maximizing

Author:Michael Pollan

“I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"”

“The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.”

People Ifs World Way Kids Film Born Generations Land Talent Mom Dad Prove Belts Mom And Dad Lead In Canon Helen Dames Scorsese Proving Yourself Raw Talent

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“If you can imagine the area and the land in Cambodia, I mean there are hardly any roads in big parts of the country. The roads they have, in the rainy season, become just mud. So, if you’re somebody that has just one leg, or blind with no arms and you have children and you’re trying to work, and earn some money, and take care of your home, it’s hard enough to be a parent and do all of that normally.”

Ifs Trying Mean Children Country Hard Enough Home Bigs Care Parent Imagine Land Arms Areas Seasons Blind Legs Take Care Just One Mud Rainy Cambodia Rainy Season

Author:Angelina Jolie

“If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.”

Ifs Should Language Land India Tyranny Welcome Indian Serving Dedicated English Language Englishmen Resisting

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.”

Ifs Men Said Whole Life Is Land Foundation Slavery Slave Whole Life They Said Wages Hypocritical Southerner

Author:Eric Foner

“In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.”

“There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.”

Ifs Way Problem Order Land Areas One Way Housing Developers

Author:George Deukmejian

“I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.”

People Ifs Want Feels Trying Wanted Hate Song Courses Walks Records Land Okay I Hate Excited Department Shops Disappointed Deceived

Author:Brian Eno

“But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Political Politics Challenges Wealth Risk Land Percent Serving Rebel Serving Others

Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“And I may stand where health, success, and power Await my coming, if, each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience; and abide With stainlessness; and never step aside From high integrity; so shall I see At last the land of immortality.”

Ifs May Lasts Hours Steps Land Integrity Immortality Fleeting Patience And Love

Book:From Poverty to Power

Source: From Poverty to Power

“If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.”

Ifs Mean Children Would Be Liberty Land Rain Libertarian Forests Burning My Children Libertarianism

Author:Sting

“If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”

Ifs Ends Felt Darkness Land Misery Corruption Length Anarchy Reign Degradation Breadth Religious Books

Author:Daniel Webster

“If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!”

“The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.”

Ifs Stills Shows Humanity Fate Land Industry Aristocracy

Book:In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography

Source: In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography

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