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If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

– Victor HugoRate it:

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.

– Thomas WolfeRate it:

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

– Thomas WolfeRate it:

If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

– Abdul Baha, Bahai WritingsRate it:

If a man hasn't discovered something he wi die for, he isn't fit to live

– Martin LutherRate it:

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

– HerodotusRate it:

If a man is born, he should be born either a king or a fool.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

– Martin Luther King Jr.Rate it:

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.Rate it:

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.Rate it:

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.

– Yiddish ProverbRate it:

If a man is in love, he is hungry, even if he is not hungry.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

If a man is miser he will certainly have a prodigal son.

– Vikrant ParsaiRate it:

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!

– Mehmet Murat ildanRate it:

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.

– Bertrand RussellRate it:

If a man is poor, and at the same time lazy,he is more likely to be malicious.

– lot chakonzaRate it:

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it

– SocratesRate it:

If a man is stealing nuts and bolts from a railway track, and, in order to change him, you send him to college, at the end of his education, he will steal the whole railway track.

– D. L. MoodyRate it:

If a man is the head, a woman is the brain, without the brain, tell me what will become of the head. -Okiki Michael

– The PostRate it:

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

– SenecaRate it:

If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

– Lucius Annaeus SenecaRate it:

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

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