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If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war. Roberto Bolano
Bob Marley quote: "If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying..."
If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying praises to the devil, I say. Bob Marley
If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything. Joyce Carol Oates
If it's us", she whispered, "how come you get to decide?"When he didn't answer - couldn't answer - she turned and stared out the front window. As it turned out, they were still in the parking lot. They hadn't gotten anywhere at all. Jodi Picoult
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf. Armistead Maupin
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? Frederic Bastiat
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and? pity me. Even the open, transparent lake has its unknown depths, which no divers know. Hans Christian Andersen
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.--"The Content of the Psychoses Carl Jung
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the Living God. Francis Schaeffer
Muhammad Ali quote: "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then..."
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it. Muhammad Ali
Abraham Lincoln quote: "If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant..."
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again. Abraham Lincoln
If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe it's a paradox, like an image reflected to infinity in a pair of facing mirrors. I am a part of this world, and this world is a part of me. Haruki Murakami
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "And if I died, at least I died. For thee! for thee"
And if I died, at least I died. For thee! for thee Edgar Allan Poe
If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures - these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come - it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live. Richard P. Feynman

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