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“Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They can survive in the hottest of deserts. Some can remain on the wing for years at a time. They can girdle the globe. Now, we have taken over the earth and the sea and the sky, but with skill and care and knowledge, we can ensure that there is still a place on Earth for birds in all their beauty and variety - if we want to... And surely, we should.”

Ifs Want Should Years Long Stills Care Earth Taken Sea Sky Skills Bird Wings Flying Variety Desert Continents Globes Hottest Antarctica Girdles

Author:David Attenborough

“The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.”

People Ifs World Doe Seems Would Be Winning Fiction Quality Successful Taken Crime Honestly Successful People Crime Fiction

Author:George Pelecanos

“I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.”

Ifs Feels Taken Lucky Damn

Author:Ben Stein

“I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.”

People Ifs World Want Trying Kind Mean Littles Doe Different Ends Might Bits Taken Comedy Little Bit Tasks Theater Comic Seats End Of The World Venues Picture Taken

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.”

Ifs Language Taken Ill

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.”

Ifs Looks Heart May Bigs Care Girl Taken Cry All Things Don't Care I Don't Care Big Girl

Author:Sia Furler

“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.”

Ifs Needs Levels Consciousness Taken Historical Absence Transition

Author:Terence McKenna

“Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.”

Ifs Has Beens Force Decision Virtue Taken Greater Dissent Eloquent

Book:Name-Dropping: From FDR On

Source: Name-Dropping: From FDR On

“If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?”

Ifs Action Moral Taken Cost Benefits Majority Minorities Expenses Moral Action

Author:Garth Nix

“Truth must be sought at all costs, but separate isolated truths will not do. Truth is like life; it has to be taken on its entirety or not at all. . . . We must welcome truth even if it reproaches and inconveniences us -- even if it appears in the place where we thought it could not be found.”

Ifs Found Taken Truth Is Cost Welcome Isolated Reproach Inconvenience Entirety

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”

Ifs Men Years Littles Law Justice Quality Taken Mankind Conscience Essence All Time Code Sensations Fragments

Author:Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Important Feelings Light Remember Felt Knowing Taken Television First Time Warm Cards Relief My Future Elevators

Book:A Big Life in Advertising

Source: A Big Life in Advertising

“One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can't be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story about choice, he retains the ability to practice choice.”

Ifs Knows May Persons Stories Home Choices Loses Ability Practice Taken Duty Possession Arguing Loved Ones

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.”

Ifs Stills Hands Difficult Rooms Novel Taken Computer Phones Pet Noisy

Author:David Nicholls

“If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.”

Ifs Hard Used Study Taken Painting Originals Drawing Painter Used To Be Granted Museums Cartoon Cartoonist Taken For Granted

Author:Bill Watterson

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

Ifs Past Moving Knowledge Learning Taken Limits Active Cease Ties About Yourself Accumulation Static Learning Knowledge Learning About Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance. If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him. Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.”

Ifs Should Matter Body Common Taken Doubt Glasses Surface Resistance Former Substance Ease Shock Convince Latter Metals Electricity Particles Jars Electrical

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.”

“Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he'd have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.”

Ifs Littles Two Care Games Bits Taken Four Little Bit Balls Turnover

Author:Bo Ryan

“Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.”

Ifs Men Made Interest Numbers Class Issues Taken Ought Labor Instruments Court Available Protection Tyranny Remedy Privileged Disputes Invasion Laborers Boycott Unlawful

Author:William Howard Taft

“There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.”

Ifs Want Mind Humans May Light Taken Optimism Busy Human Mind Pessimism Woe Consolation Disagreeable

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

“Little miss is taught by her mamma that she must never speak before she is spoken to. On this she sits bridling up her head, looking from one to the other, in hopes of being called to and addressed by the name of pretty miss.... But if this should not happen and no one should take any notice of her, she is ready to cry at the neglect. But should there be another miss in the room caressed and taken notice of whilst she is thus overlooked, it will be impossible for her to contain her tears, and blubbering is the word.”

Ifs Should Littles Happens Names Speak Rooms Education Taken Impossible Childhood Missing Cry Tears Taught Ready Neglect Overlooked

Author:Sarah Fielding

“I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the side of the wall, then it's up to you.”

Ifs Want Mean Different Political Sides Taken Adventure Wall Meaningful Phrases Japan San Francisco Up To You Dallas Great Adventure Of Context Beijing Copenhagen

Author:Ben Eine

“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?”

Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Art Done School Turns Stuff Bits Careers Taken Worst Little Bit Cooking Shops Worst Things Sewing Art Music Woodworking Welding

Author:Temple Grandin

“People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.”

People Ifs Needs Taken Ought Findings Congress

Author:William J. Clinton

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.”

Ifs Men Next Taken Weakness Next Time Follow Through

Author:Roy Cohn

“If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.”

Ifs Thinking Art Form Taken Comfortable Institutions Frustration Senate Law Enforcement Delay Impatience

Author:Dick Durbin

“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”

Ifs Way Firsts Wells Done Bits Taken Heard Hair Horror First Time Golf Journalism Journalist Pairs Pants Recalls Vague Bicycle Peeking

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

Ifs Doe Home Certain Found Hours Sun Taken Ready Return Amount Scene Method Following Fixed Rising Makers Fatigue Monotony Working Women

Author:Anna Brackett

“The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Purpose Taken Theory Models Investment Investing Behave Investors Efficient Efficient Markets

Author:Eugene Fama

“I think the willingness to listen is really a matter of confidence. You can't be so superconfident in your abilities that you ignore what others say, and you can't be so diffident in your abilities that you think that if they say something, you will be so taken in that you will do the wrong thing. When you are confident about your abilities and also fully aware of what you don't know you are willing to listen to outside experts with the full sense that if you don't find it worthwhile you will ignore it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Matter Ability Taken Willing Listening Experts Willingness Worthwhile Wrong Things

Author:Raghuram Rajan

“Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.”

Ifs Half Taken Vanity Imperfection Proclamation

Book:Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections

“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.”

Ifs Mind Soul Heaven Natural Taken Divine Corruption Flesh Contemplation Peace Within

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.”

Ifs Spirit Work Path Taken Nice Calling Travel Enlightenment Mere Humble Cards Impress Nice To Meet You

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Faces Causes Nature Taken Activity Human Activity

Author:Pope Francis

“It never feels good if you don't reach all of your goals, neither in sport, nor in business nor in your personal life. But the key thing is to never give up, we have taken our learnings from 2014 and developed an exciting and promising strategy for the period up until 2020.”

Ifs Life Giving Feels Sports Goal Taken Keys Periods Giving Up Exciting Strategy Feel Good Personal Life Never Giving Up Key Things

Author:Herbert Hainer

“The music world has taken a huge dump, so maybe there's a connection. So if Apple decided to do this, maybe they do their own version ... whatever they want to do it's a home run for music. Unless they screw it up, and try to put something on it so that they can own it - I'm calling it out, proprietary formats are not a good thing.”

Ifs World Want Trying Home Running Music Taken Huge Calling Connections Decided Good Things Versions Apples Screws Format Dump Home Run

Author:Neil Young

“If you haven't peed the bed, you haven't taken enough chances.”

Ifs Enough Chance Taken Havens Bed Enough Chances

Author:Joe Rogan

“Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance. . . . Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.”

Ifs Should Age Taken Unique Should Have Regard Ancient Typical Elegance Sophistication

Author:Rolfe Humphries

“Christ came to save us. If we have taken a wrong course, the Atonement of Jesus Christ can give us the assurance that sin is not a point of no return. A safe return is possible if we will follow God's plan for our salvation”

Ifs Giving Courses Jesus Christ Sin Taken Plans Return Safe Jesus Christ Salvation Assurance Atonement God's Plan Safe Return

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.”

Ifs Giving Trying Matter Moments Given Enjoy Taken Serious No Matter What Away From You Goofy

Author:Derek Holland

“If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.”

Ifs Firsts Action President Taken Office Let Me Barack Executives Illegal Unconstitutional

Author:Ted Cruz

“I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Wells Wanted Study Taken Doctors Medicine Crafts

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Made Can Do Realizing Community Situation Roles Taken Rights Seeing Movement Ought Equal Men And Women Hey Equal Rights

Author:Julian Bond

“My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.”

Ifs Reason Bigs Ability Technology Taken Becoming Losing Function Dependent Incidents

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Hard Done Kids Winning Process Goal Loss Taken Havens Becoming Victory Blessing Accomplish Key To Success Being A Kid Go Hard Turntables

Author:DJ Khaled

“Is driving a right? You are entitled to a driving license if you can abide by the traffic laws and drive responsibly. If your driving endangers the lives of others, that license will be taken away from you. So rights and responsibilities are inseparable. If you can't respect the rights of others, if by your belief and conduct you endanger the lives of other people, you are not entitled to any right.”

People Ifs Law Belief Responsibility Taken Rights Driving Entitled Traffic License Inseparable Lives Of Others Away From You Rights And Responsibilities

Author:Ali Sina

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