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If and once
If you'd get out of your back yard
once in a while
you might even get her your ownself
''.
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 he foresaw any problem because of
the quality of
the hymen
, it was recommended that simple procedures be undertaken at
once to incise
the hymen or
, preferably
, to dilate it
.
If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant
to sit on his ass around
the station
all night
, Killpath would just have
to go out
and drag Gun back by
the heels
once an hour ; ;
If laying ties on a railroad track
, which he
once did for $1 an hour
, paid more than playing right field for
the Yankees
, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track
.
If working in a zinc mine
, which he
once did for 87-1/2 cents an hour
, paid more than playing center field for
the Yankees
, Mantle would work in a zinc mine
.
If I let her go
, she'd disappear
once more
.
If unchallenged
, these decisions have
the power
to settle more minor legal disputes
once and for
all.

Jarry
once wrote
, expressing some of
the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics
, "
If you let a coin fall
and it falls
, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again
the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

He
once wrote
, "
If I should go
to Poland or Germany
, every stone
, every tree would remind me of contempt
, hatred
, murder
, of children killed
, of mothers burned alive
, of human beings asphyxiated
.
If a person is
to be punished criminally
, then
the contempt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt
, but
once the charge is proven
, then punishment ( such as a fine or
, in more serious cases
, imprisonment ) is imposed unconditionally
.

"(...)
If Russia is tending
to become a capitalist nation after
the example of
the Western European countries
, and during
the last years she has been taking a lot of trouble in this direction-she will not succeed without having first transformed a good part of her peasants into proletarians ;
and after that
, once taken
to the bosom of
the capitalist regime
, she will experience its pitiless laws like other profane peoples
.

By 1914
, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man
, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was
once quoted as saying "
If a man has not made a million dollars by
the time he is forty
, he is not worth much ".
If one throws a hot gas with entropy into a black hole
, once it crosses
the horizon
, the entropy would disappear
.
If a tuning other than equal temperament is used
, the instrument requires retuning
once the keyboard is shifted
.

The Council of Trent decreed: "
If anyone
shall say that a man
once justified can sin no more
, nor lose grace
, and that therefore he who falls
and sins was never truly justified ; or
, on
the contrary
, that throughout his whole life he can avoid
all sins even venial sins
, except by a special privilege of God
, as
the Church holds in regard
to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema
.
If international finance Jewry in
and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting
the nations
once again into a world war
, then
the result will not be
the Bolshevisation of
the earth
and with it
the victory of Jewry
, but
the destruction of
the Jewish race in Europe
.

:
If we have deprived or dispossessed any Welshmen of lands
, liberties
, or anything else in England or in Wales
, without
the lawful judgement of their equals
, these are at
once to be returned
to them
.
If the case should arise
, they are resolved
, and prepared
, to employ without delay
all the forces at their command
, and it is impossible
to foresee
the end of hostilities
once engaged
.
If Judge Landis was suspicious of an attorney's line of questioning
, he would begin
to wrinkle his nose
, and once told a witness
, " Now let's stop fooling around
and tell exactly what did happen
, without reciting your life's history
.

"
If he did not act at
once it would be too late ,"
the telegram read
, " because would send his car
to the scrap heap
.
If the breeding is not successful within two
to three weeks
, the female is bred
once again
.

Friedman
once said, "
If you want
to see capitalism in action
, go
to Hong Kong
.
If an event is sent on two channels at
once, the event on
the higher-numbered channel cannot transmit until
the first one is finished
, and so is delayed by 1ms
.
If and they
If we let them go
, they won't stay away
, they'll find men
to ride with them
and they'll be back
.
If the bluff failed
and they ran into trouble
, Brannon had told
the others
, they would withdraw --
and he would come after his son another time
.
If the other pilots were worried
, they did not show it
.
If any of us miss
, they can pick up
the pieces
.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read
the classics
I would have been stymied on what
to do
, and now
I understand why
they are classics ; ;
If his dancers are sometimes made
to look as if
they might be creatures from Mars
, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in
the orbit of another world
, a world in which
they are freed of their pedestrian identities
.
If they avoid
the use of
the pungent
, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
If these people were denied a voice ( do
they have a moral right
to a voice??
If any had escaped expulsion by hiding
, they certainly would not frequent
the market-place
.
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
.

Defoe then commented
, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly
, for
they are not asham'd
to Say They want only a head
to Make a beginning
''.
If his scholarship
and formal musicianship were not
all they might have been
, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm
and dialect
.
If they are right
, they will prevail of
and by themselves
.
If the hardships of
the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men
, they were
, of course
, much more so for those not in good health
.
If, the editors sometimes
, dozed
and printed pretentious
, New
, York-mind
, dross
, they, also printed
, Malraux
,, Silone
,, Chiaromonte
,, Gide
, Bellow
,, Robert Lowell
, Francis Fergusson
, Mary McCarthy
, Delmore Schwartz
, Mailer
, Elizabeth Hardwick
, Eleanor Clark
,, and a host of
, other good writers
.
If they give him advice when he asks it
, or if
they perform specified duties under his direction
, the nature of
the U. N. will not of necessity change
.
If they do as well as
they did in 1960 there can be no complaint
.
If they do meet
and recognize one another
, slap backs
and embrace
, the moment soon is done
.
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