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“Why is nostalgia such a bad thing? Nostalgia is a longing to return. If you really loved where you came from, if, in essence, you really loved yourself, how can you not want that to exist? It's like wanting your parents keep living.”

Ifs Want Parent Return Essence Longing Nostalgia Bad Things

Author:Melissa Holbrook Pierson

“I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life.”

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”

Ifs Doe Character Facts Might Would Be Given Causes Judging Return Blow Latter Justify Jury Aggravation Verdict Pun Homicide Aggravated

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“The West doesn't have to love us. In fact, we should ask ourselves more often why people are so suspicious of us. After all, the West isn't a charity organization. How have we been perceived for centuries? As a huge, warlike realm ruled by despots - first by the czars and then Bolsheviks. Why should anyone have loved us? If we want to be accepted, we have to do something in return. And it's an art that we have yet to master.”

People Ifs Want Should Firsts Art Facts Asks Century Masters Huge Return Organization West Charity Accepted Realms Suspicious Despots Bolsheviks Czars

Author:Vladislav Surkov

“Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.”

Ifs Said Running President Term Return Trump Birth Taxes Release President Obama Certificates Birth Certificate Tax Returns

Author:Conan O'Brien

“They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your heart with little thought of return. Both powerfully imaginary and comfortingly real, dogs act as mirrors for our own beliefs about what would constitute a truly humane society. Perhaps it is not too late for them to teach us some new tricks.”

Ifs Giving Heart Mean Littles Real Enough Belief Simple Teach Wise Dog Return Offers Late Models Mirrors Tricks Too Late Imaginary Humane Humane Society

Author:Marjorie Garber

“If you show people you don't care, they'll return the favor. Show them you care, they'll reciprocate.”

People Ifs Shows Care Return Don't Care Favors Reciprocate

Author:Lee Bolman

“If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has to look at cognition itself, something we have never done before in economics.”

Ifs Want Looks Done Economy Return Economics Cognition Dynamics Instability

Author:W. Brian Arthur

“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.”

Ifs Children Doe College Return Our Children Add University Population Former Latter Fanatics Harvard Legislature Virginia Kentucky Cambridge Transylvania

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.”

Ifs Whole Spiritual Joy Games Return Passionate Serving God Hymns

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I no longer become angry. I not only do not say angry words, I do not even think angry thoughts! If someone does an unkind thing to me I feel only compassion instead of resentment. Even upon those who cause suffering I look with deep compassion, knowing the harvest of sorrow that lies in store for them. If there were those who hated me, I would love them in return, knowing that hatred can only be overcome by love, and knowing that there is good in all human beings which can be reached by a loving approach.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I had created sufficient age when I started out January 1, 1953, and I said, that's enough. From that time on I thought of myself as being ageless and in radiant health, and I am. I haven't gotten younger, but I see no point in getting younger. I can get along just fine as I am, and if you have learned the lessons of the seasons of life before, you really have no wish to return to a prior season of life.”

Ifs Said I Can Enough Age Wish Havens Fine Return Lessons Seasons Sufficient No Point January Radiant Seasons Of Life Ageless January 1

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.”

Ifs World Return Mirrors

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“We think we should only go into a country if we can be sure of our return. Jesus never promised that.”

Ifs Thinking Should Country Jesus Return

Author:Andrew van der Bijl

“If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.”

Ifs Giving I Can Three Games Break Return Shots

Author:Andy Roddick

“I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.”

Ifs Want Wells Made Matter Team Return Organization No Matter What Houston

Author:Lance Berkman

“The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you'll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you've been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.”

Ifs Should Said Given Differences Return Taxes Paper Irs Clip Tax Returns Paper Clips

Author:Emo Philips

“It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.”

Ifs Seems Values Opportunity Return Promise Expected Latter Portions Unwise One Deep

Author:John Mihaljevic

“We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.”

People Ifs Remember Spirit Names Christ Water Week Return Promise Blessing Eternal Sacred Temples Commandments Sacraments Eternal Life Covenant Baptism

Author:Sheldon F. Child

“If we love Jesus, we shall be loved in return by Him, and that is perfect happiness.”

Ifs Jesus Perfect Return Jesus Love Perfect Happiness

Author:Rose Philippine Duchesne

“We need to remember the purpose of our service to one another. If it were only to accomplish some part of His work, God could dispatch 'legions of angels.' . . . But that would not achieve the purpose of the service He has prescribed. We serve God and our fellowmen in order to become the kind of children who can return to live with our heavenly parents.”

Ifs Needs Kind Children Remember Purpose Order Parent Achieve Return Angel Accomplish Heavenly Serving God Legion

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.”

People Ifs Values Individual Building Return Exercise Brands Aspiration Compassionate

Author:Monica Lewinsky

“But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.”

Ifs Risk Effects Security Events Return Miracle Regard Majority Theology Overwhelming Bargains Uniformity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.”

Ifs Important Government Our Lives Return Politician Trade Fewer More Money

Author:John Stossel

“If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.”

Ifs Art Government Force Pieces Fronts Building Return Ugly Our Society Sanity Metals Elites Twisted Pretentious Removal

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity, plug it into an amplifier and rethink yourself.”

Ifs Purpose Return Mediocrity Plugs Amplifiers

Author:Buddy Wakefield

“Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they bet against George Soros and for the British pound. And they are erring right now by continuing to float along as if the most significant credit bubble history has ever seen does not exist. Opportunities are rare, and large opportunities on which one can put nearly unlimited capital to work at tremendous potential returns are even more rare. Selectively shorting the most problematic mortgage-backed securities in history today amounts to just such an opportunity.”

Ifs Doe Sometimes Bigs Today America Opportunity Security Return Amount Right Now Credit British Significant Online Pounds Bubbles Currency Continuing Unlimited Floats Mortgage Erring

Author:Michael Burry

“Most people will see declining returns [due to inflation]. One of the great defenses if you're worried about inflation is not to have a lot of silly needs in your life - you don't need a lot of material goods.”

People Ifs Needs Materials Return Dues Defense Silly Worried Goods Inflation

Author:Charlie Munger

“The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Matter Enough Views Return Periods Rate Entry Prevailing

Author:Seth Klarman

“Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but theorists went bonkers on the cost of equity capital. They say that if you're generating a 100% return on capital, then you shouldn't invest in something that generates an 80% return on capital. It's crazy.”

Ifs Courses Opportunity Easy Crazy Figures Keys Return Cost Including Consideration Equity Borrowing Theorists Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more earnings. EVA has ideas about cost of capital that make no sense. Of course, if a company generates high returns on capital and can maintain this over time, it will do well. But the mental system as a whole does not work.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Doe Ideas Whole Turns Courses Games Company Return Cost Awful Bullshit Earning

Author:Charlie Munger

“We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.”

Ifs Opportunity Interest Willing Return Cost Rate Our Future Guessing Interest Rate Hurdle Opportunity Cost

Author:Charlie Munger

“If you come from insignificance and when you die you return to insignificance, then nothing is significant now.”

Ifs Dies Return Significant Insignificance

Author:Timothy Keller

“If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.”

Ifs Way Years Long Doe Ends Would Be Eye Differences Numbers Pay Return Periods Taxes Investment Work Out Opening Contrast Compounds Minus Eye Opening

Author:Charlie Munger

“We love being in business with Guillermo [Del Toro]and frankly that movie, if you look it up, did I think more business than the first X-Men, did more than Batman Begins, our first movie, did more than Superman Returns, The Fast and the Furious, Star Trek- so for a movie that was an original property that we made up it's done really well.”

Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Wells Looks Made Done Stars Love Is Return Originals Property Furious X Men

Author:Thomas Tull

“It is commonplace of all religious thought that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and live for a while in the wilderness. If he is of proper sort, he will return with a message. It may not be a message from the god he set out to seek but even if he has failed in that particular, he will have had a vision or seen a marvel and these are always worth listening to or thinking about.”

Ifs Thinking Men May Religious Vision Particular He Man Listening Return Messages Fellows Seeking Insight Wilderness Commonplace

Author:Loren Eiseley

“If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that lie in God's wilds beyond my reach.”

Ifs Should May Lying Walks Sweet Return Civilization Treasure Wilderness Horizon Glimpse Compelled Twisted Cables Slits Roving Chinks Characterless

Book:The High Sierra of California

Source: The High Sierra of California

“If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?”

Ifs Wells Bigs Return Publishers Manuscripts Postage

Book:The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

“I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them $800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.”

Ifs Said Government Remember Differences Figures Return Paper Letters Spending Pentagon Irs Clip Paper Clips

Author:Emo Philips

“If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.”

Ifs Heart Return Summer Refuse Als About Yourself Al Qaeda

Author:Christian Finnegan

“[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.”

“Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."”

Ifs Should Next Sin Struggle Return Succeed Army Asking Winter Congress Sat Britain Repent Whispering Great Britain Baltimore Fear God

Author:Benjamin Rush

“An ordinary day. I get up early, drive to the airport, from there driving to the arena where we wrestle. Then if we have a show I will take another plane for my destination. Otherwise I will take a plane to return home and fall in bed very, very late.”

Ifs Shows Home Fall Return Bed Late Ordinary Driving Get Up Planes Destination Arena Airports Up Early Ordinary Days

Author:Chris Jericho

“Start with the least amount of money possible. Some people say they need a certain amount to start, and I say you need a half of that or a third of that. That gives you the biggest return. If you put all your eggs in one basket, it's harder to adapt when you need to. Unless it's very capital-intensive, you don't need much money.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Certain Half Return Amount Thirds Harder Eggs Baskets Eggs In One Basket

Author:Cameron Johnson

“A SWAT team surrounded my house and came in every door. But it happened because on the day that we split up, Madonna developed a concern that if she were to return to the house, she would get a very severe haircut.”

Ifs House Happened Doors Team Return Concern Splits Severe Haircuts

Author:Sean Penn

“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts War Today Can Do Week Return Taxes Married Notes Dues Checks Joints Getting Married Irs Make Out Filing

Author:Bill Maher

“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it. If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the Legislature as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.”

Ifs Giving Doe Book Lost Simple Clear Return Benefits Gains Sake Expenditures

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.”

Ifs Made Whole Earth Universe Space Flower Source Return Elements Clouds Sunshine Gardener Minerals

Book:The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.”

Ifs Return Obligation Merit Initiative Greetings Manifold

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

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