Ifs Quotes - Page 6

• If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

  Halle Berry

  Unique, Thinking, Race

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  Wendell Berry

  Responsibility, Needs, Welfare

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

  Wendell Berry

  Humble, Cutting, Boys

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• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

  Annie Besant

  Space, Earth, Void

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.348, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

  John Betjeman

  Happiness, Laughter, Giving

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.53, A&C Black

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• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Believe, Misunderstood

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• If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Sweet, Two, Rivers

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• In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Want, Vigor, Steam

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• If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

  Jello Biafra

  Evolution, Outlaw, Evolve

  "If Evolution is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve". Album by Jello Biafra, October 27, 1998.

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• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Jobs, People

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• You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

  Joe Biden

  Opportunity, President, Want

  "Biden says he'll be different vice president". Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. December 22, 2008.

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• The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.

  Joe Biden

  Issues, Giving, Three

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• Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?

  Justin Bieber

  Girl, Cocky, Trying

  "Justin Bieber on His Musical Inspirations, His Fans, and Trying to Be a Regular Kid". Vanity Fair Magazine Interview, www.vanityfair.com. January 4, 2011.

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• Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

  Justin Bieber

  Funny, Girl, Years

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Normal, Thrive, Knows

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.160, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

  Steven Biko

  People, Personality, Realizing

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• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Way, Guides

  Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub

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• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Perfection, World

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• If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Faith, Safety

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