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

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If the German people favor such a settlement we should not oppose Germany following the example of Austria.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

-- If there are outside windows in the basement corner where you build a shelter, they should be shielded as shown in the Appendix, page 29.

If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If your computation on Form 1040 or Form 1040A shows you owe additional tax, it should be remitted with your return unless you owe less than $1, in which case it is forgiven.

If payment is by cash, you should ask for a receipt.

If you file a Form 1040, you should indicate in the place provided that there is an overpayment of tax and the amount you want refunded and the amount you want credited against your estimated tax.

If you have neither a legal residence nor a principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district, your return should be filed with the District Director of Internal Revenue, Baltimore 2, Md..

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.

If it is possible for an enemy to put an atomic bomb on a city, it should be equally possible to put a cloud of biological agent over that city.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

If people don't want to provide public education, should they be forced to do so??