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 launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

Criticism of other officials was allowed during these meetings, for instance, Karl Radek said to Lenin ( criticising his position of supporting peace with the Germans ), " If there were five hundred courageous men in Petrograd, we would put you in prison.

If the species concerned were short-lived ( in geological terms, lasting a few hundred thousand years ), then it is certain that the sediments in question were deposited within that narrow time period.

If Noah was six hundred years old ( Genesis 7: 13 ), then Shem was ninety-eight years old at the Flood.

If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we ’ ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy .” Franks then offered “ in a practical sense ” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.

" ( If six saws saw six Cypress trees, six hundred and six saws would saw six hundred and six Cypress trees.

If the gauge block is known to be 0. 7500 " ±. 00005 " (" seven-fifty plus or minus fifty millionths ", that is, " seven hundred fifty thou plus or minus half a tenth "), then the micrometer should measure it as 0. 7500 ".

If the species concerned were short-lived ( in geological terms, lasting a few hundred thousand years ), then it is certain that the sediments in question were deposited within that narrow time period.

" As President in 1865, Johnson wrote to the man he appointed as governor of Mississippi, recommending, " If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution in English and write their names, and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at at least two hundred and fifty dollars, and pay taxes thereon, you would completely disarm the adversary in Congress, and set an example the other states will follow.

“ If we had helped a hundred children it would have all been worthwhile .”

If a male and female like each other's song, they will find the other gibbon and do a short mating dance followed by a vigorous mating ritual that lasts three days, and they will mate about five hundred times in this time period.

Prior to the U. S. 2006 midterm elections, Pelosi announced a plan for action: If elected, she and the newly empowered Democratic caucus would push through most of its program during the first hundred hours of the 110th Congress ' term.

Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.

If Moore and Schley should fail, a hundred more failures would follow and then all Wall Street might go to pieces.

If we had one hundred cases of small-pox, I can prove to you where, in one, you will find a subluxation and you will find the same conditions in the other ninety-nine.

If born within the hundred of St Briavels, an ancient administrative area covering most of what is now considered the Forest of Dean, one is classed as a true Forester.

On the tenth he wrote to Patrick Henry requesting troops, " If it is possible for you to call forth fifteen hundred Volunteers & march them immediately to my assistance, the British Army will be exposed to a very critical and dangerous situation.

If this is the anecdote referred to by Pliny, as is probably the case, Erasistratus is said to have received one hundred talents for being the means of restoring the prince to health, which would amount to one of the largest medical fees upon record.

If the input differential voltage changes significantly ( more than about a hundred millivolts ), the base-emitter junction of the transistor driven by the lower input voltage becomes backward biased and its collector voltage reaches the positive supply rail.