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“I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.”

Ifs Want Should Mind Book Might Wanted Clear One Thing

Author:Bobby Orr

“You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Childhood Dangerous Our Children Your Children

Author:Mike Lookinland

“If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.”

Ifs Should Doe Two Soul Asks Primaries Ask Me Two Things

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.”

Ifs Should Hands Artist Add Video Hand In Hand

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?”

Ifs Should Firsts Shows Kids Easy Example Divorce Civility

Author:Dawn French

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“Stick to the classics, and you can't ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it's because they are probably wearing really classic items that they've had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.”

Ifs Thinking Should Years Realizing Streets Style Sticks Suits Classic Fabulous Items Old Lady Suits You

Author:Alexa Chung

“Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.”

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Book:How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Source: How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

Ifs Should Stills Important Growth Term Focus Missing Asking Decades Important Questions

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.”

Ifs Should Writing Real Hard Code Programming Comment Programmers Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Computer Programmers Writing Code

Author:Tom Van Vleck

“I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.”

Ifs Thinking Should Character Problem Action Plot

Author:Zoe Kazan

“I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it's the most important thing in the world, and as if it's something that everyone should weigh on because it's important to me.”

Ifs World Should Important Would Be Asks Shots Important Things Dry Korean Cleaners Dry Cleaners

Author:Billy Eichner

“Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.”

Ifs Way Should Looks States Enough Use Hands Principles Policy Huge Demand Aspect Economics Mess Beer Gas Regulation Transportation Preventing Daycare

Author:Jeffrey Tucker

“If Jesus is a teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize us by erecting a standard we cannot come anywhere near. But if by being born again from above we know Him first as Savior, we know that He did not come to teach us only. He came to make us what He teaches we should be. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us.”

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Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God, the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know about Him but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer there is something wrong somewhere.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe Whole Understanding Prayer Teaching Objects Amount Tests Ultimate Salvation Theology Knowing God Leading Me Knowledge Of God

Author:Martyn

“I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.”

Ifs Should Done Hate I Hate Coaches Owners Take Me Straight Up Head Coaches

Author:Robert Griffin III

“If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.”

Ifs Should Persons Has Beens Form Justice Serving Affected

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.”

Ifs Way Should Political Politics Destiny Feminism Regard Uplifting Opponents Political Correctness Correctness Publicists

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.”

Ifs Knows Should Jobs Example Paid Oil Gas Owners Small Business Business Owners Small Business Owners Oil And Gas

Author:Jeff Landry

“Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Different Play Mistake Know How Tough Vulnerable

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.”

Ifs Men Should War Hate Violence Proud I Hate Wave Goodbye

Author:Nancy Wake

“Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.”

Ifs Should Work Greed Weary Really Mean Exhausting

Author:Rebecca McCann

“I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.”

Ifs Thinking Should Home Week Should Have Folks Ran

Author:Cynthia Payne

“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.”

People Ifs Should Different Play Shows Hands Used Force Powerful Watches Television Fool Police Mediums Something Better Sitcom

Author:Roone Arledge

“If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.”

Ifs Should Believe Written Criticize

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Hard Hard Work Communication Ordinary Ordinary People

Author:Leonard Baskin

“If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?”

Ifs Should Stills Shows Rooms Dresses Casts Kitchen Restaurants Broadway Rehearsal Dining Dining Rooms Broadway Shows Preview

Author:Marian Burros

“People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Stuff Pay Contracts Millionaire

Author:Jonathan Frid

“I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I would go crazy. So as soon as I'm free, I start writing. While it is necessary for me to write, I know that if I go too long without acting on the stage I don't feel well.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Writing Wells Long Two Happens Waiting Acting Crazy Stage Months Impatient Two Months

Author:Erland Josephson

“Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.”

Ifs Needs Should Wells Country Courses Responsibility Environment Focus Students Citizens Educated Civics Well Educated Proficiency Civic Responsibility

Author:George Nethercutt

“I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.”

Ifs Should I Can School Sea Paid Reports Fishing Captains License

Author:Mickey Melchiondo

“If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet”

Ifs Should Taught Should Have Harry Potter Closets Potters Taught Us

Author:J. K. Rowling

“A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.”

Ifs Should Use Beautiful Poor Poverty Temptation Beautiful Women Her Beauty Circumspection

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.”

Ifs Should Sound Water Land Disease Doctors Casts Thee Echoes Applause You Again Pristine

Book:The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens

Source: The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens

“I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Should Happens Actors

Author:J. J. Abrams

“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.”

Ifs Way Should War Strong Force Lines Principles Military Policy Position Resistance Opponents Climbs Retreat Ladders

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?”

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Persons Wisdom Pain Mother Desire Sin Cases Disease Increase Hunger Lust Islamic Breasts Gluttony Nafs

Author:Busiri

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.”

“Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.”

Ifs Should Mean Energy Cutting Serious Flower Ships Alternatives Valleys Peru Lettuce

Author:Joel Salatin

“As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.”

Ifs Should Believe Stills Matter Reason Science Universe Individual Belief Interest Race Creator Corners Tiny Reason Why No Reason Insignificant Primeval Fortuitous

Author:Rosalind Franklin

“If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?”

Ifs Should Ends Universe Teach Ontology

Book:The Sacred Band

Source: The Sacred Band

“If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.”

Ifs Needs Should Growing Degrees Picks Should Have Seasons Smell Lovely Fifty Buying Flavor Perfume Tomatoes

Author:Julia Child

“I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money are you trying to raise? And then you have to justify that to your investors, because they want to know why you [are] raising that much? Why aren't you raising either twice as much or half as much?”

Ifs Knows Want Should Trying Wells Running Half One Thing Raises Rounds Justify Investors

Author:David Plotz

“If somebody's going to earn citizenship, with whatever other hurdles are put in the way, at the end of the road they should be able to speak English, they should be able to read English, they should have some knowledge of American history.”

Ifs Way Should Ends Able Speak Should Have American History Citizenship Hurdle Speak English End Of The Road

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“My agent in London told me, after Never Let Me Go, because I loved doing that so much, "If you're on a lucky streak and you're doing well, you should only take a part, if you can't bear the idea of anyone else doing it." That's been the case since then, with Drive and Shame and the play (The Seagull), and the stuff that's going on, like Gatsby. I would have been devastated, if I hadn't gotten those jobs.”

Ifs Should Wells Has Beens Ideas Play Jobs Stuff Cases Bears Lucky Let Me Shame London Agents Streaks Devastated Let Me Go Seagull Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.”

Ifs Thinking Men Should Years Said Two Done Would Be Wanted Past Millions Months Deserve Convinced Convincing My Past Two Months Macho Why Me Hairspray

Author:John Travolta

“If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.”

Ifs Should Said Dies Advice Medical Tea Beef Mutton

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works