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 there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

If the object point be infinitely distant, all rays received by the first member of the system are parallel, and their intersections, after traversing the system, vary according to their perpendicular height of incidence, i. e. their distance from the axis.

If x is a member of A, then it is also said that x belongs to A, or that x is in A.

* If the metric space X is compact and an open cover of X is given, then there exists a number such that every subset of X of diameter < δ is contained in some member of the cover.

If a " positive list " approach were taken, only species evaluated and approved for the positive list would be permitted in trade, thus lightening the review burden for member states and the Secretariat, and also preventing inadvertent legal trade threats to poorly known species.

* Overrunning clutch or freewheel: If some external force makes the driven member rotate faster than the driver, the clutch effectively disengages.

If the driving member rotates in the direction that would unwind the spring the spring expands minutely and slips although with some drag.

If no election is to take place within 120 days of the vacancy then the district chairman is to call together the members of the district and they are to elect a member who will serve until the next town election.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

If a planet orbits one member of a binary star system, then an uppercase letter for the star will be followed by a lowercase letter for the planet.

If any member of the offensive team is downed while in possession of the ball behind his own team's goal line, this is called a safety and scores two points for the defensive team.

If the board of directors has judged that a member bank is performing or behaving poorly, it will report this to the Board of Governors.

A bureau chief stated, " If any member had been excluded it would have been the same thing, it has nothing to do with Fox or the White House or the substance of the issues ".

If Philip II Augustus supported Philip of Swabia, member of the House of Hohenstaufen, then Richard Lionheart supported Otto IV, member of the House of Welf.

If a member of the executive committee quits or dies, the other four members appoint his or her replacement.

Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset ; one member of the committee told him: " If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy.

If Justus was a member of the second group of missionaries, then he arrived with a gift of books and " all things which were needed for worship and the ministry of the Church ".

Unification Church member Kristopher Esplin told Reuters what is normally done if the word is seen in media sources: " If it's printed in newspapers, we will respond, write to the editor, that sort of thing.

* If baptism is a sign that a person is a member of God's covenant community, and if the children of believers are members of that community, it follows that the children of believers should receive the sign that they are members of God's covenant community by being baptized, as an infant is entitled to a passport that indicates the child as a member of a particular country.

If a person elected prime minister is neither a member of the Lok Sabha nor Rajya Sabha, then he must become a member of the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha within six months.

If the members of the task group agree that the name is appropriate, it can be retained for use when there is a request from a member of the scientific community that a specific feature be named.