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.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If one chooses an infinite number of distinct points in the unit interval, then there must be some accumulation point in that interval.

If he / she chooses not to put the detectors there, then the interference pattern will become reality ; if he / she does put the detectors there, then the beam path will become reality.

Rand summarizes: If chooses to live, a rational ethics will tell him what principles of action are required to implement his choice.

If the Prime Minister dies in office, the Cabinet chooses an Interim Prime Minister, to run the government until a new government is placed in power.

If either the 2nd player chooses to move to the square diagonal to the first player or the first player's 2nd move is not to this square given the choice, then a starting position before flipping moves commence that differs from the standard Othello position arises.

The passers-by spit in his face, and sometimes beat him … unmercifully … If a Jew enters a shop for anything, he is forbidden to inspect the goods … Should his hand incautiously touch the goods, he must take them at any price the seller chooses to ask for them ...

If it chooses the former, the telephone company will face less regulation but will also have to comply with FCC regulations requiring what the Act refers to as " open video systems.

If it chooses shares, it avoids increasing its debt, and in some cases the new shareholders may also provide non monetary help, such as expertise or useful contacts.

If the medium becomes idle, the sender transmits a frame with a probability p. If the station chooses not to transmit ( the probability of this event is 1-p ), the sender waits until the next available time slot and transmits again with the same probability p. This process repeats until the frame is sent or some other sender starts transmitting.

If you must move your opponent's pawn to promotion, then your opponent chooses to what piece it promotes.

If a word has more than one definition listed, the Picker privately chooses which one to use, but in such a case must specify, " X, when it does not mean so-and-so.

If a plan chooses to pay less than Medicare for some benefits, like skilled nursing facility care, the savings may be passed along to consumers by offering lower co-payments for doctor visits.

If the contestant chooses to play, a lighted " spinner " begins moving around the board, while the individual squares on the board cycle through a series of items.

If no bidder chooses to utilize the buyout option before the end of bidding the highest bidder wins and pays their bid.

If a novice chooses to leave during the novitiate period no penalty is incurred.

If the individual chooses that outcome which has the maximum chance of being satisfactory, then this individual's behavior is theoretically indistinguishable from that of an optimizing individual under certain conditions

If a second player chooses to play a higher card of the same suit or any trump, that player wins the trick.

Following his conversion to Christianity, C. S. Lewis believed that the resurrection of Jesus belonged in this category of myths, with the additional property of having actually happened: " If God chooses to be mythopoeic — and is not the sky itself a myth — shall we refuse to be mythopathic?

If the player chooses the Bad Ending, Klogg is punched out by a transformed Klaymen.

If the Player chooses the Good Ending, Klogg tries to kill the awakened Hoborg but steps on the remote for his cannon and is blasted clean off the Neverhood.

If the re-vote does not resolve the tie, the tied players are granted immunity and the non-tied players ( except anyone who has won individual immunity ) are forced to choose rocks out of a bag without looking ; the player who chooses the differently colored rock is eliminated.

If the Elder chooses to take fewer than the maximum, she may then look at the remainder from the five ( which are the first ones that the Younger will take ).