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 the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

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 a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

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 he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

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 many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

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 to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

If the person has a mental illness and it is determined that the mental illness interfered with the person's ability to determine right from wrong ( and other associated criteria a jurisdiction may have ) and if the person is willing to plead guilty or is proven guilty in a court of law, some jurisdictions have an alternative option known as either a Guilty but Mentally Ill ( GBMI ) or a Guilty but Insane verdict.

" If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us ... We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

Scopes added to the group: " If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial.

This is because each point on the supply curve is the answer to the question " If this firm is faced with this potential price, how much output will it be able to and willing to sell?

Johnson, Tunis and Reeves have never publicly discussed their time with Eastwood, while Fisher said of their relationship " If the other person is not willing to grow and work on it, you can't do it by yourself.

If two goods are perfect substitutes then the indifference curves will have a constant slope since the consumer would be willing to switch between at a fixed ratio.

If Gamal Abdel Nasser should die, each of you shall be Gamal Abdel Nasser ... Gamal Abdel Nasser is of you and from you and he is willing to sacrifice his life for the nation.

If a player's table image is that of an aggressive bluffer, slow playing is less important because his opponents will be more willing to call his usual bets and raises.

If, however, the infant was allowed to survive half an hour only, it was spared ; but to have the right of keeping it the mother must find a male Areoi willing to adopt it.

He also said: " Even the willing buyers that we have find it incredibly difficult to get financing ... We can't keep a full workforce on at this point when people aren't buying planes ... If market conditions continue to deteriorate, it may be necessary for the company to take additional actions ".

... If you say ' No ,' if at the last moment you are no longer willing to listen to disinterested counsels.

When asked about the test case, Scopes was initially reluctant to get involved, but after some discussion he told the group gathered in Robinson's Drugstore, " If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial.

" If the amount of a public good can be varied continuously, the optimal quantity to produce is that quantity for which the marginal cost of the last unit is just equal to the sum of the prices that all consumers would be willing to pay for that unit.

If the Unionists wished to win the ensuing election they would have to show that they were willing to compromise.

If this is done successfully, then theoretically no customer will pay less for the product than the maximum they are willing to pay.

If the Ming Dynasty was willing to give support and money that would be beneficial to the Qing's economy, the Qing Dynasty in exchange would not only be willing to not attack the borders, but also admit itself as a country one level lower than the Ming Dynasty ; however, since all the Ming Court officials were reminded of the Jin Empire during the Song Dynasty, the court heavily refused the exchange.

If team members are not willing to learn and adopt groupware, it is difficult ( if not impossible ) for the organization to develop the requisite critical mass for the groupware to be useful.

If you are laying bets based on Drosnin, you had better be willing to bet on all possible outcomes.

If this were not the case they would probably not be willing to lend the money given the poor risk profiles of the companies interested in this type of financing.

If the lord was willing, the land could be granted to the religious body by his inaction.

If no related family member is willing or able to adopt, the next preference is for the child to be adopted by the foster parents or by someone else involved in the child's life ( such as a teacher or coach ).