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• I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had the about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.

  Rowan Williams

  Sex, Prayer, Character

  "Archbishop of Canterbury compares gay relationships to marriage" by Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Martin Beckford, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 6, 2008.

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• Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

  Michael Connelly

  Jobs, Color, Doubt

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• If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

  John Flanagan

  Procrastination, People, Action

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• There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

  Glen Duncan

  Cancer, Years, Tea

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.

  Terry Goodkind

  What If, Important, Truth Is

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.181, Head of Zeus

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• Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

  Tom Clancy

  Two, What If, Foundation

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• IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others,for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mistake, Weakness, Might

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.218, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

  Susan Hampshire

  Being Happy, Stars, People

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• Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

  Gene Sarazen

  Golf, Earning, I Realized

  Gene Sarazen (1950). “Thirty Years of Championship Golf: The Life and Times of Gene Sarazen”

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Feet, Half, Earth

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• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

  Hannah Arendt

  Home, Anticipation, Fellows

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

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• Any military force should be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States. And if and when we use force, we should use overwhelming force for a clearly stated objective. And then when we're done, we should get the heck out.

  Ted Cruz

  Military, United States, Use

  "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, Children, Exercise

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• My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Helping Others, Simple

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.

  Thomas Nagel

  Consciousness, States, Organisms

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Order, Variables, Ontology

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.187, Harvard University Press

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• I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.

  Robin Olds

  Moving, Thinking, Blue

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• But for me, dinner at a fine restaurant was the ultimate luxury. It was the very height of civilization. For what was civilization but the intellect's ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of the finely superfluous (poetry, handbags and haute cuisine)? So removed from daily life was the whole experience that when all was rotten to the core, a fine dinner could revive the spirits. If and when I had twenty dollars left to my name, I was going to invest it right here in an elegant hour that couldn't be hocked.

  Amor Towles

  Civilization, Names, Luxury

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• It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

  Joan Didion

  You Like It, Pleasure, Written

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

  Steve Martin

  Ideas, What If, Dollars

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• I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Writing, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very many humorous fantasy murder mysteries out there, especially not as intricately constructed as this one. Michael G. Munz takes a 'What if,' and runs with it like a toddler with Mom's smart phone. The guffaw-worthy throwaway bits will remind you of Douglas Adams. A very enjoyable read.

  Jody Lynn Nye

  Mom, Running, Smart

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• Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Struggle, Men, Liberty

  Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund

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• Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Reality, Choices

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.97, Penguin

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• "Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.

  Neal Knox

  Dog, Giving Up, Mean

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