"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
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"If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe."
"If you're not thinking for yourself, then you're following-not leading."
"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it."
"If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end"
"It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place."
"If you have really attained wholeness, everything will flock to you."
"If someone is responsible, it's me."
"I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it."
"Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand."
"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing."
"Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing."
"My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally."
"I always do my rap from the outside looking in. Like I do my rap as if I'm looking at me rap."
"If you hang with 9 broke people, you'll be the 10th."
"The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth."
"If you don't fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you"
"If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday"
"...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel"
"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am."