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“The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.”

Ifs Book Country Would Be Literature Interesting New York Position Experiments New York Times

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.”

People Knows Should Wells Would Be Literature Decision Talking Seeing Policy Experts Cloning

Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.”

People Ifs Knows Would Be Able Literature Taken Saws Unions Soldier Congress African Union

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

“To proclaim himself an agnostic, while to some it might appear more respectable and cautious, would be to say in effect that he hadn't decided what to believe.”

Believe Might Would Be Atheism Effects Decided Agnostic Respectable Cautious

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.”

Ifs Feels Looks Would Be Majors Nhl Concussions

Author:Sidney Crosby

“My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.”

Ifs Would Be Felt One Thing Regret Baseball Lifetime Average If I Could

Author:Mickey Mantle

“'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.”

Ifs Mind Wells Heart Ends Enough Would Be Funny Girl Causes Love You This Life Relax Weary End Times Weary Heart

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.”

Would Be Ability Subjects Example Buddhism Easier Disappear Quarters Parking Meter Parking Meters

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.”

Stills Feelings Light Might Would Be Space Imagine Air Atheism Easier Empty Positive Atheism Resistance Flight Imagine That Dove Empty Space Cleaving

Book:Kant

Source: Kant

“Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.”

Believe Would Be Atheism Decided Atheist Positive Atheism Absurd Intimate Intimate Relationships

Author:Paul Krassner

“The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Body Would Be Together Consciousness Atheism Survival Argument Weak Bases Destroyed Immortality Persist Interconnection

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.”

Would Be Christian Wish Atheism Honest Brother Hero Deny Positive Atheism Being Honest Permit Christian Brothers

Book:What on Earth Is an Atheist!

Source: What on Earth Is an Atheist!

“Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.”

Ifs Would Be Courses Atheism Theory Evolution Positive Atheism Explanation Inexplicable Theory Of Evolution Vacuous

Author:Steven Pinker

“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.”

“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.”

Thinking Should Facts Would Be Christian Christianity Atheism Evidence Mere Positive Atheism Agnostic Christian Faith Evangelical Fallacy Unitarian

Author:Robert M. Price

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.”

Believe Would Be Able Goal Realizing Atheism Positive Atheism Opponents

Author:Jean Rostand

“I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.”

“I could not believe that anyone who has read this book would be so foolish as to proclaim that the Bible in every literal word was the divinely inspired, inerrant word of God. Have these people simply not read the text? Are they hopelessly misinformed? Is there a different Bible? Are they blinded by a combination of ego needs and naïveté?”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.”

“Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.”

“If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.”

Ifs Government Would Be Business Democracy Consumers Disturbing

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The ideal build for a golfer would be strong hands, big forearms, thin neck, big thighs and a flat chest. He'd look like Popeye.”

Looks Hands Bigs Would Be Strong Ideals Golf Necks Flats Chests Golfers Thighs Strong Hands Popeye

Author:Gary Player

“If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Running Lying Cry Green Golf Golfers Crow

Author:J. C. Snead

“I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.”

Trying Play Bigs Would Be Company Practice Walking Golf Naked Gallery Choir

Book:DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Source: DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

“My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Would Be Night Games Sports College Lists Tigers Buckets Bucket List Lsu College Sports

Author:Beano Cook

“I think it would be a boring game if everybody was the same, just like it would be boring if you guys asked the same dumb questions.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Guy Games Media Boring Dumb Nba Dumb Questions

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“The Lord showed me by vision and revelation what would happen if we did not stop this practice... all ordinances would be stopped... many men would be made prisoners... I went before the Lord, and I wrote what the Lord told me to write.”

Ifs Men Writing Made Happens Would Be Vision Lord Practice Revelations Prisoner Polygamy Ordinances

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate with the no [number] of 'Wives Childin & Friends' that we inheret here and that our great mission to earth was to Organize a Neculi of Heaven to take with us. To the increase of which there would be no end.”

Firsts Ends Would Be Earth Heaven Numbers Wife Taught Increase Missions Command Prophet Organize Dominion Taught Us Polygamy Great Future

Author:Benjamin F. Johnson

“I believe in sisters marrying brothers, and brothers having their sisters for wives... This is something pertaining to our marriage relation. The whole world will think what an awful thing it is. What an awful thing it would be if the Mormons should just say we believe in marrying brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Believe Whole Would Be I Believe Wife Brother Relation I Believe In Whole World Awful Brothers And Sisters Marrying Polygamy

Author:Brigham Young

“Bro Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such an union was due entirely to prejudice and the offspring of such union would be healthy and pure as any other. These were the decided views of Pres. Young when alive, for Bro. S. talked to him freely on this matter.”

Said Matter Would Be Young Church Views Alive Brother Healthy Horror Pure Decided Prejudice Unions Dues Snow Brothers And Sisters Offspring Polygamy Bros

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Children Would Be Running Position Equal Our Children Investment Honestly Doomed Idealistic Position Of Power

Author:Meryl Streep

“I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.”

Would Be Figures Type Rap Public Figures

Author:Freddie Gibbs

“I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Giving Long Would Be Energy Figures Industry Shame Excited Rap Insane Bullshit Enthusiastic Music Industry Rap Music

Author:Nas

“I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.”

People Trying Hard Would Be Faces Forget Forget About Me

Author:Wiz Khalifa

“I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.”

Ifs Writing Matter Would Be Able Song Careers One Thing Drug Tools Addiction Alcohol If I Could Sober Drugs And Alcohol Alcohol Addiction

Author:Macklemore

“New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.”

Thinking Kind Stories Home Would Be Film New York Particular Paris Rome Very Happy Fondness

Author:Woody Allen

“When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.”

Stills War Facts Would Be Challenges Technology Century Difficulty Chaos Focused Uncertainty Get Better Bullets Missiles Knocking

Author:David Hoffman

“Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.”

Ifs Years Wells Persons Would Be Wanted Walks Steps Millions Design Walking Skills Complicated Billions Software Robots Calculations Every Step

Author:David Pogue

“The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...”

Mean Would Be Argument South Flags Nazi Confederate Confederate Flag

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Heaven Laughing Great Things

Author:Robin Williams

“I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I'm alive in any way at all, that'll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.”

Ifs Knows Way Would Be Strong Alive Surprise Conviction Pleasant Not Afraid I'm Alive Pleasant Surprises

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Children Ideas Facts Would Be Felt Parent Wonderful Resources Tolerance Shrinking

Author:Erica Jong

“In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.”

Ifs Would Be Moving Fun Process Creative Too Much Good Things London Flying Moving Forward Planes Creative Process Jumping Too Much Work

Author:Tom Hanks

“Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.”

Ifs Would Be Goal Needed Research Cancer Cures Fusion Cancer Cure

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I try to just be open to what the next experience is and how it makes me feel, just reading a project, or trying to get involved with a project, or thinking about a project, and what particular emotional flavor that brings. To me, it's never really about planning the next thing, or the career arc. It's about investigating how I feel, from project to project, and finding things that I haven't explored and what that would be like.”

Thinking Feels Trying Would Be Reading Next Careers Havens Emotional Particular Involved Findings Projects Planning Flavor Get Involved Arcs Investigating Feels Just

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.”

Ifs Mind Would Be Boring Tunes Positively

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.”

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Author:Adam Sandler

“It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.”

Thinking Mean Problem Would Be Today Past Work Mankind Method Naive Solved Problems

Book:A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988

Source: A Road to the Future: Address by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ... at the Plenary Meeting of the Forty-third Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York, Wednesday, December 7, 1988