If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.

If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.

If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

If you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.

Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.

If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??

If you use one of the new year-round cooling system fluids such as `` Dowguard '' be sure to check it.

If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made.

If a pub served meals they were usually basic cold dishes such as a ploughman's lunch.

If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager would find the closest match and apply a basic scaling algorithm.

In his last dozen shorts ( ranging from 1945's If a Body Meets a Body through 1947's Half-Wits Holiday ), he was seriously ill, struggling to get through even the most basic scenes.

If a stronger and even more secure knot is required an extra riding turn can be added to the basic knot to form a double constrictor knot.

If this download to the missile fails during power-up, basic functionality runs off the on-board ROM.

If a pub served meals they were usually basic cold dishes such as a ploughman's lunch.

If a chemical synthesis starts from basic laboratory compounds and yields something new, it is a purely synthetic process.

If they wish, they can choose to undertake the eight precepts, which have some additional precepts of basic asceticism.

Saxophonist Evan Parker observed that Stevens had two basic rules: ( 1 ) If you can't hear another musician, you're playing too loud, and ( 2 ) if the music you're producing doesn't regularly relate to what you're hearing others create, why be in the group?

If all team members each perform the same basic tasks, such as students working problems in a math class, or outside sales employees making phone calls, then it is likely that this team is an independent team.

The basic events are the same as in the real case, but the characterizations are fully imagined ... If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept.

If they are not, there is a basic problem such as a design flaw or a proliferation of patches.

If for instance a procedure for plain pancakes is mapped to blueberry pancakes, a decision is made to use the same basic batter and frying method, thus implicitly generalizing the set of situations under which the batter and frying method can be used.

If one considers the structure yielded by packaging or indexing, there are four basic data structures:

If you ignore the effects of gravity, then there are ten basic ways of doing such shifts: translation through time, translation through any of the three dimensions of space, rotation ( by a fixed angle ) around any of the three spatial axes, or a boost in any of the three spatial directions.

If you combine such isometries together ( do one and then the other ), the result is also such an isometry ( although not generally one of the ten basic ones ).

If an attempt is made to perform an S < sub > N </ sub > 1 reaction using a strongly basic nucleophile such as hydroxide or methoxide ion, the alkene will again be formed, this time via an E2 elimination.

If the government borrows ( runs a deficit ) to deal with a severe recession ( or depression ), to help self-defense, or spends on public investment ( in infrastructure, education, basic research, or public health ), the vast majority of economists would agree that the deficit is bearable, beneficial, and even necessary.

If the black hole rotates, and the image of the pellet is pulled around, the associated electrical fieldlines ought to be pulled around with it to create basic " electrical dynamo " effects ( see: dynamo theory ).

Altshuller believed that inventive problems stem from contradictions ( one of the basic TRIZ concepts ) between two or more elements, such as, " If we want more acceleration, we need a larger engine ; but that will increase the cost of the car ," that is, more of something desirable also brings more of something less desirable, or less of something else also desirable.