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" If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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* In the second verse of the hit song " Rocket Man " ( 1972 ), Elton John sings " Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids / In fact it's cold as hell / And there's no one there to raise them / If you did ".
( Following the game, Henderson was quoted as saying, " If he ain't struck you out, then you ain't nobody.
At the end of the skit, Hackett would say " If you ain't got a Herbie ( pronounced " hoy-bee "), I ain't going.
Lord Vetinari's genius political thinking and his running of the city can be summed up by his belief that what people wish for most is not good government, or even justice, but merely for things to stay the same ; the Vetinari family motto is, after all, Si non confectus, non reficiat (" If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Joe Morrison was subsequently quoted as saying, " If it ain't swayin ', we ain't playin '"-- a phrase that eventually made it onto bumper stickers and other items, and is still a popular saying today.
In 2004 Hardie Boys announced his opposition to New Zealand becoming a republic stating in an interview: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Taylor later stated that the situation made him more nervous than any play of his career, " I'm saying to myself ( as the pass is being thrown ), ' If I drop this pass, I got to run my black ass all the way to Upper Saddle River because there ain't no way I'm going to be able to stay in that stadium '.
* Pragmatic monarchists who maintained that, whatever the argued weaknesses of the current system, it also had many strengths ; following the motto of " If it ain't broke, don't fix it ".
Tiger and Emily look him in shock, but he only tells Tiger ; " If he's still in there, he sure ain't happy.
Spuzzum was immortalized in the early 1980s by the band " Six Cylinder " in a song with the refrain " If you haven't been to Spuzzum, you ain't been anywhere.
Lance is credited with originating the phrase " If it ain't broke, don't fix it ", when he was quoted saying it in the May 1977 issue of the magazine Nation's Business.
If and broke
If the assembly broke the law, the only thing that might happen is that it would punish those who had made the proposal that it had agreed to.
In response to a fight that broke out at one of his seminal Storm Raves in New York City, Bones got on the microphone and yelled “ If you don ’ t start showing some peace, love, and unity, I ’ ll break your faces .”
If it came to the sudden-death tie-breaker, only the final question ( the one that ultimately broke the tie ) was kept and aired.
If someone broke his boundaries, thus getting more than his ordained part, then he would be punished by law.
The song involves Marvin describing his views on life (" I'd feel a little better if they broke me up for spares ", " If I had my time again, I'd rather be a lemming "), to a synthesiser backing.
Although Burke ultimately won the chart war, Burke broke rank and supported his rival: “ I would go to the radio stations and say, ‘ Hi, I ’ m Solomon Burke, and I ’ m here promoting the new record “ If You Need Me ”… by Wilson Pickett .’” Despite his efforts, Burke's version jockeyed with Pickett's for position in the Hot 100, before " beating Pickett to the punch " because of " Solomon ’ s popularity and Atlantic ’ s distribution.
If we filled the house at 100 percent at half price, we'd go broke and I haven't seen any surge of tourist business yet this season.
If any member territory broke the NWA's rules, it faced expulsion, and thus risked missing out on having nationally-known wrestlers appear on their local shows.
" If the pot broke, the soldier was exposed to attack from snakes or spiders, hence the name " spider hole ".
If the spring broke, the reverse recoil of the barrel, instead of being passed on to the gear train, would simply unscrew the pinion.
If a western train broke down in East Berlin territory, then passengers would need to wait for Eastern border police to appear and escort them out.
If individuals speaking a single language migrated to the region of present-day Mali and then broke off into small groups that had little connection, it would be expected that the languages would develop different characteristics over time.
If the marriage broke up after the end of seven years, the woman was entitled to half the common pool.
If I proposed that anybody trying to knife or pistol another person should walk away and resume his daily amusements if the knife broke or the pistol missed fire, they would certainly ask me if I had contemplated the possibility of encouraging the employment of knives and pistols.
If war broke out with Great Britain and a decisive military breakthrough was achieved by the U. S. to a similar extent that occurred in the Mexican War, a movement to annex " all of Canada " could very well have been pursued.
* If the mainspring broke and had to be replaced, a frequent occurrence with early mainsprings, the fusee had to be readjusted to the new spring.
If and don't
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
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.
Chief Moore said, `` If I don't see you when I return, see you for certain at my road block, Inspector ''.
If we don't take care, the sisters will be entering the fray on opposite sides, brandishing their cudgels ''.
If they don't then for the algorithm to be effective it must provide a set of rules for extracting a square root.
If a 7 is rolled instead of the point being re-rolled, the don't pass bet wins and is paid even money.
If a player is playing don't pass instead of pass, they may also lay odds by placing chips behind the don't pass line.
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