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If by luck ( or, if one prefers, the will of heaven ) he picks the door with the woman behind it, he is declared innocent and set free, but he is required to marry the woman on the spot, regardless of his wishes or his marital status.
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`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.
If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.
If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.
If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.
If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.
If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??
If I hafta do this to stay alive by God I'll do it.
If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.
If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.
If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.
If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.
If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.
If payment is by cash, you should ask for a receipt.
If you are an income beneficiary of property held in trust or an heir, legatee, or devisee, you may deduct allowable depreciation and depletion, if not deductible by the estate or trust.
If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.
If and luck
:: If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!
The awards ceremony is traditionally closed with the words: " If you didn't win a prize — and especially if you did — better luck next year!
: If " out of luck " at duty's call
If there are no more major similarities that crop up in the next few weeks or months, with luck we can continue that way.
If one were to go searching for very early viols with smooth-curved figure-eight bodies, like those found on the only slightly later plucked vihuelas and the modern guitar, they would be out of luck.
If his plans failed, it was almost always out of luck on behalf of the other characters.
If we have unearned luck
If the bottle fails to break this is often thought to be bad luck.
If V is a probabilisitic Turing Machine which could possible accept x if x is in X, then the proof is the string of coin flips which leads the machine, by luck, intuition, or genius, to accepting x.
If possible, washing in the morning snow was good luck.
If there were no luck or random guessing involved in the answers supplied by students to the test questions, then all students would score the same on the second test as they scored on the original test, and there would be no regression toward the mean.
If " good " and " bad " events occur at random to everyone, believers in good luck will experience a net gain in their fortunes, and vice versa for believers in bad luck.
He had a rhyme he liked to sing: " If thou here wilt let me stay, / Good luck shalt thou have alway ; / But if hence thou wilt me chase, / Luck will ne ' er come near the place.
If another player is close to claiming a column, then you should probably push your luck longer, hoping to steal this column away.
If you lose your lucky rabbit's foot or magic power crystal you've literally lost your luck or power.
If someone does say " good luck ", they must go out of the theatre, turn around 3 times, spit, curse, then knock on the door and ask to be readmitted to the theatre.
If the host consents, the " lion " will come in and start dancing as a blessing of luck and fortune for the home.
If I win, it will be because I have a little bit of luck and some of the others have trouble.
* If you find a needle and it is pointing towards you, you will have bad luck ; if it pointing away from you, you will have good luck.
If the regular season champion's primary success was only outscoring others, they may be out of luck facing goaltenders that can shut them out.
If our having certain traits is itself a matter of luck, this would seem to undermine one ’ s moral responsibility for one ’ s moral character, and thus the concept of moral character altogether.
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