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“The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?”

Ifs Done Philosophy Life Is Remains Meaningless Soup Alphabet Alphabet Soup

Source: Mere Anarchy

“Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.”

Ifs Kind Language Remains Dialogue Mysterious Evolve

Author:Terence McKenna

“Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.”

Ifs Problem Succeed Ears Remains Purses Silk

Author:Dave Hickey

“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.”

“In the long run I don't think anyone can overlook these images of hunger, that people can ignore all my pictures - no, definitely not. And even if only a vague impression remains, in time this will create a basis that will help people distinguish between what is good and what is objectionable.”

People Ifs Thinking Long Helping Running Bases Remains Hunger Impression Long Runs Vague

Author:Werner Bischof

“The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.”

Ifs Accepting Share Remains Surface Impulse

Author:Jeanloup Sieff

“Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant who knew too well what was expected. This possibility is supported by independent evidence that the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel's expectations.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Possibility Expectations Evidence Independent Agree Remains Expected Experiments Data Explanation Deceived Assistants Mendel

Author:Ronald Fisher

“If I stop today at a protest and I read a speech, it is a speech that remains in that moment, and whoever captures it does, and whoever doesn't, doesn't, and just keeps walking. It is very sterile, and it can seem even inaccessible and boring for a community.”

Ifs Doe Moments Seems Today Community Walking Speech Remains Boring Protest That Moment Capture Inaccessible

Author:Bocafloja

“If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.”

Ifs Knows Lord Know How Doors Willing Praying Remains Forgiving Priests Locked

Author:Pope Francis

“That as much as we're afraid of New World Order coming and of Canada and America joining together, that if we don't learn the lessons from the past then it doesn't matter what you want to call it: the North American Union or the South American Union, or the European Union, or the African Union... it doesn't matter what you call it as long as the arrangement remains the same.”

“Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.”

Ifs Firsts Hard Hate Answers Accepting Love You Remains Who You Are Love Yourself First Love Hate You Hard Questions

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.”

Ifs Needs Care America Given Grief Struggle Seeing Promise Quiet Remains Terrorism Take Care Turkeys Own Business

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“The greatest thing about form and convention is that it saves you from having to reinvent the wheel. Now, whether you mount the wheel to a horse carriage or a Formula One racing car, make it plain or give it spinning rims, those are all craft decisions. But the fact of the wheel remains: it will turn if you set it down. That's what I mean about the beauty of the gifts genre can offer.”

Ifs Giving Mean Facts Form Turns Decision Car Offers Horse Remains Crafts Genre Wheels Formulas Racing Conventions Spinning Carriages Race Car Rims Formula One

Author:Chris Abani

“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.”

Ifs Writing Mean Doe Feelings Emotion Forever Particular Poet Truth Is Remains

Author:Denise Duhamel

“I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.”

Ifs Made Important Moving Nations Understanding Groups Remains Myth Mythology Invisible Live By Obscure

Author:Marina Warner

“Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.”

“There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.”

Ifs Kind Different Facts Kids School Lasts Sex Black Levels Growing Up Growing Youth Remains Fats Worried Different Levels Fat Kid

Author:John Amaechi

“Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.”

Ifs Lasts Consciousness Remains Calm Blow

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.”

Ifs Reason Waiting Records Focus Remains Historical Math Corporate Theme Opposition June July Resonance Anti Semitism Nominations Unbroken Confirmation Garlands Radicalism Louis Brandeis

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

“Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.”

Ifs Want Feels Writing Mean Doe Has Beens Able Lasts Understanding Levels Alive Achieve Connections Remains Insight Finished Contrary Landscape Farewell My Friendship

Author:Oliver $

“A man who hates the passion cuts off their causes. But a man who remains among their causes experiences even against his will the conflict from the passions. It is not possible to be mentally inclined toward a passion if one does not love its cause. For who, disdaining shame, is given to vainglory? Or who, loving lowliness, is bothered by dishonor? Who, having a broken and humble heart, accepts fleshly sweetness? Or who, believing in Christ, is concerned about temporal things, or argues about them?”

“If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?”

“I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.”

People Ifs Wells Play Term Groups Honest Okay Remains Who I Am Being Honest Obscure

Author:Brad Mehldau

“If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved.”

Ifs Feels Trying May Social Remains Rewards Cheer Introvert Cheer Up Extroverts

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.”

Ifs Years Long Has Beens Games Color Remains Filmmaker Performers Great Year

Author:Ava DuVernay

“If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.”

Ifs Way Persons Long Seems Honest Trump Remains Long Way

Author:Newt Gingrich

“You will never exploit your full technical capacity if your fitness remains a weak link.”

Ifs Capacity Weak Remains Links Exploits

Author:Steve House

“It will be the CIA's mission and my own if confirmed to ensure that the agency remains the best in the world at its core mission - collecting what our enemies do not want us to know. In short, the CIA must be the world's premier espionage organization.”

Ifs Knows World Want My Own Enemy Organization Remains Missions Core Agency Want U Collecting Cia Espionage

Author:Mike Pompeo

“I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing that could happen for example would be under a new government in South Korea, to get the South Korean government to live up to its own constitution, which says any Korean who makes it to South Korea, is a Korean citizen. A citizen of the Republic of Korea. And you could imagine the impact that would have inside North Korea if people thought, "If I could get out and make it to South Korea, I could have a different life."”

“As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.”

Ifs World Mean Persons Long Powerful Democracy Willing Healthy Remains Pursue Most Powerful Reporters Wrath American Democracy Incurring Powerful Person

Author:Jonathan Karl

“You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.”

People Ifs Happens Political Support Media Remains Democrat Convince Mainstream Fooled Mainstream Media Measure Of Success

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.”

Ifs Doe America Policy Remains Not Sure Sanctions

Author:Daniel Fried

“I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.”

Ifs World Should Believe Mean Real Eye Artist Suffering Love Is Acting Training Remains Don't Believe Intimate Spheres Real Love Behalf Believe In Love Intimate Relationships

Author:C.E. Morgan

“We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.”

Ifs Thinking May Stills Feelings Might Running Romance Language Process Vision Resources Remains Revolutionary Cycles Technological Inadequate

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.”

Ifs Want Children Home Loses Powerful Teach Messages Remains Your Children Classroom Battlefields

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”

Ifs Character Strong Race Weak Remains Possession Worthless Egotism Glitter Distinctive

Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle”

Ifs Mother Remains Agreement Maids Turtles

Author:Arthur Golden

“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”

“Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.”

Source: A Coffin for Dimitrios/Judgement on Deltchev/Passage of Arms: Three Complete Novels in One Volume

“If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains”

Ifs I Can Cry Broken Laughter Remains Wine Frightened Imaginary Leaving Me Bleeding Imaginary Friend

Author:Elvis Costello

“Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.”

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

Ifs World Poor Enemy Rich Land Ambition Remains Greed Hunger Driven Naked Desert Empires Construction Pretense Slaughter Hail Stripping

Author:Tacitus

“I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.”

“God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong and pure…’ so if your faith remains strong after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day of His return.”

Ifs Said Facts Strong Challenges Return Honor Pure Glory Tests Opposites Praise Remains Glad Trials Tubes Fiery Glory And Honor

Author:Joel Osteen

“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Important Ideas Dies Left Brain Forever Five Genius Spring Remains Bottom Communicate Thirty Five Years Volume Earnest Explaining Human Thought

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.”

Ifs May Made Form Purpose Loses Remains Errors

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.”

Ifs Men May Matter Facts Wish Views Thousand Ten Remains Point Of View Ignorant Inferiors Demonstration Fathom Beetles

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Once you have been in an earthquake you know, even if you survive without a scratch, that like a stroke in the heart, it remains in the earth's breast, horribly potential, always promising to return, to hit you again, with an even more devastating force.”

Ifs Knows Heart Has Beens Earth Force Return Remains Breasts Strokes Scratches Earthquakes You Again

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.”

“What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.”

Ifs Feels Ends Moments Past Memories Happened Jokes Remains Your Past Gloss Dispassionate Zoom

Author:David Rakoff

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