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“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.”

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Author:Austen Chamberlain

“Seva, love and sacrifice are the basic prerequisites for human development. If you agree with this precept, nurture good will towards all and help people to the best of your ability without expecting anything in return. Don't think, 'I will render service only when the organizers agree with me and not otherwise.' Dear brother! In that case, you will not be able to serve. You will only nurture your ego by making others agree with you.”

“After the second Die Hard, Bruce Willis stated he would never do another. He should have stayed firm in his resolve. If quality is any indication (and it may be, with all the available blockbusters), box office returns will be disappointing this time around and, if nothing else, that will do to John McClane what dozens of assorted bad guys couldn't manage: kill him.”

Ifs Should May Hard Guy Dies Quality Return Office Should Have Boxes Available Manage Firm Resolve Dozen Bad Guys Indication Disappointing Box Office Blockbuster Assorted

Author:James Berardinelli

“If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens States Facts Taken Masters Return Creator Accepted Secure Rejected Guise Flux

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“How can you begin to uncover whether gluten sensitivity is causing some of your health issues? Symptoms occur shortly after eating gluten and improve or disappear within hours or days after gluten is withdrawn. Symptoms return again if gluten is reintroduced.”

Ifs Hours Issues Return Eating Disappear Sensitivity Symptoms Health Issues Gluten

Author:Kris Carr

“If the Lord had meant us to pay income taxes, he'd have made us smart enough to prepare the return.”

Ifs Made Enough Pay Lord Return Taxes Smart Income Income Tax

Author:Kirk Kirkpatrick

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”

Ifs States Wisdom Form Politics United Half United States Economy Return Percent Income Liberalism Capitalist Household Consumption Annuals

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“If one thinks of an enlightened person in a negative way, as it hits their aura, it returns very strongly.”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Buddhism Return Negative Buddhist Enlightened Very Strong Etiquette Auras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.”

Ifs Art Reason Seems Principles Atheism Return Ten Worship Beast Apes

Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“If prosecutors in the state of Utah continue on the path they are on in seeking us out, I hate to tell you what might happen. To put it bluntly - the mountains could come down upon them. I think they are going to get shook up. I think we are in store for a lot of things if we don't reprent and return to the way of God.”

Ifs Thinking Way States Might Happens Hate Path Return Mountain I Hate Seeking Stores Polygamy Prosecutor Utah

Author:Tom Green

“If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.”

Ifs Needs Looks Whole Happens Individual Community Animal Watches Return Rewards Sensitive Divided Consistently Arrangements Beneficial Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.”

Ifs World Firsts Stills Soul Helping Strong Healing Hell Return Lucky Trapped Go To Hell

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.”

Ifs Hard Return Hard Things

Author:Plautus

“Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.”

Ifs Humans I Can Human Beings Sin Love Is Alive Imagine Return Blessing Proof Imagine That

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.”

People Ifs Use Attention Return Tired Treated Neglect Ceremony Trifling Coldness

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.”

Ifs Men Sex Behinds Break Greater He Man Return Ease Desperate Barriers Length Pale Decency Break Through Propriety

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.”

Ifs Earth Difficult Rooms Half Feet Return Candle Speakers Other Half Ifs And

Author:Erma Bombeck

“A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.”

Ifs May Clear Sea Return Depth Calm Pearls Wrecks

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.”

Ifs Quality Return Honor Judgment Deserve Praise Modesty Giver Commendation Niggard

Book:The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles

Source: The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.”

Ifs Long Enough Happiness Return Breathe Anxious

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.”

“A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.”

Ifs Light Might Return Burden Noses Settling Weary Trifles

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.”

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Author:Nan Hayworth

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”

Ifs Men Heart Doe Whole Enjoy Cases Violence Type Return Citizens Offers Gun Agree Fellows Interviews Endeavor Earnest Bleeding Begets Bleeding Heart

Author:Jeff Cooper

“The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.”

“If you want to be a writer in the world you really have to sit down and say, 'Why do I want to do this and why was I drawn to it to begin with?' And keep reminding yourself to return to that original impulse.”

Ifs World Want Return Originals Down And Impulse Reminding Reminding Yourself

Author:Dorianne Laux

“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.”

Ifs Knows Way Humans Hard Certain Evil Liberty Special Return Gains Ideals Response Strikes Firm Retreat Always Believe Great Idea Audacity Human Freedom

Author:George W. Bush

“Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.”

Ifs Return Favors

Author:Seth Godin

“If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“If a man has a sense of identity that does not depend on being shored up by someone else, it cannot be eroded by someone else. If a woman has a sense of identity that does not depend on finding that identity in someone else, she cannot lose her identity in someone else. And so we return to the central fact: it is necessary to be.”

Ifs Men Doe Facts Loses Identity Depends Return Findings

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.”

Ifs Giving Time Relationship Return Who You Are End Times Spend Time Be Who You Are

Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

“In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.”

Source: What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life

“I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.”

Ifs Thinking Play Would Be Running Plans Stage Return Musical

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.”

Ifs Men Eye Wish Human Nature Return Ought Noble Favors Receiving Profitable Unwilling

Author:Aristotle

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“I will tell you, in the case of education, you have to make the investment if youre going to get the return. Theres no doubt about that. Its a proven fact the return is there if you make the investment. It really is about priorities.”

Ifs Facts Cases Doubt Return Investment Priorities No Doubt Proven

Author:Jon Tester

“You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.”

Ifs Firsts Dies Return

Author:Sophie Jordan

“No form of human exchange is more profitable than the exchange of ideas. If I give you a thought in return for one of your thoughts, each of us will have gained a 100 percent dividend.”

Ifs Giving Humans Ideas Form Return Percent Profitable Dividends

Author:Napoleon Hill

“You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.”

Ifs Jobs Opportunity Teaching Missing Return Anxiety Optimism Performances Strive Average Cures Improving Exceed Teaching Someone

Book:The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Source: The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work

“To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Two Happens Dies Evil Return Victory Deeds Triumph New Life Theologian Perpetrators Protestantism Infusion

Book:The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

Source: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.”

Ifs Helping Care Return Deeds Helping Others Gods Will Settling Expecting Good Deeds

Author:Dillon Burroughs

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

“If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.”

People Ifs World Persons Self Truth Next Talking Return Honour Talking About Me

Author:Michel de Montaigne

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