"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."

Adler, Jerry on ecology
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"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well."

Thatcher, Margaret on intentions
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"If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion."

Nasello, Salvador on economy and economics   

"If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, You Only Live Once."

Harris, Sidney J. on evil
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"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."

Paglia, Camille on women
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"If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming."

Barkley, Charles on basketball   

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on communication
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."

Onassis, Aristotle on women
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"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

Malesherbes, Chretien on attitude
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."

Smith, Harold J. on mistakes
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

Shaw, George Bernard on economy and economics
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"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring."

Karr, Alphonse on courage   

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

Watson, Lyall on mind   

"From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it."

Whitehorn, Katharine on christmas
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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world."

Heine, Heinrich on language   

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

Mencken, H. L. on truth
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"We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case."

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

Wright, Orville on truth   

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."

Rodman, Frances on wealth
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

Wilson, Earl on marriage   

"I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars."

Hoffman, Abbie on war
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"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."

Mencken, H. L. on trust
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Wilde, Oscar on misers and misery
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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

Chomsky, Noam on fascism   

"What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people."

Unknown, Source on wisdom   

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on motivation
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"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on argument
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"If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk."

Unknown, Source on animals
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

Buffett, Jimmy on laughter
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Fuller, Thomas on hope
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"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Proverb, Jewish on god   

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Lincoln, Abraham on faces
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell on dream
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"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."

Franklin, Benjamin on criticism   

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on character
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

Luther, Martin on belief
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