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 art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If you plan to add cooling later to your heating system, there are things to watch for.

If Blanche had been honest, she would have yelled, slammed at least a couple of doors, and thrown a few little, valueless things.

If work is substituted for things ( with more exact contribution to meaning ), it will have dominant stress.

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

If there is nothing evil in these things, if they get their moral complexion only from our feeling about them, why shouldn't they be greeted with a cheer??

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

`` If it gave me pleasure to say hard things '', he wrote, `` I would shut up forever ''.

If then any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ( literally, `` He is a new creation ), the former things have passed away ; ;

If these things be so, then the evidence of the senses must be held in slight esteem.

The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.

Existence is the principle that gives reality to an essence not the same in any way as the existence: " If things having essences are real, and it is not of their essence to be, then the reality of these things must be found in some principle other than ( really distinct from ) their essence.

If that steady-state signal was interrupted, it indicated one of two things: either the operator was about to start transmitting, or something else had happened to break the connection — such as a physical break in the telegraph line.

If software is faulty ( buggy ), it can delete a person's work, crash the computer and do other unexpected things.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.

If Greek citizenship was an " emancipation from the world of things ", the Roman sense increasingly reflected the fact that citizens could act upon material things as well as other citizens, in the sense of buying or selling property, possessions, titles, goods.

If each pixel on the display actually contains three rectangular subpixels of red, green, and blue, in that fixed order, then things on the screen that are smaller than one full pixel in size can be rendered by lighting only one or two of the subpixels.

If not to make a direct change, this movement is in place to raise awareness about the effects that take place because of the physical things around us.

If it can be claimed that it is ethical to limit the internet and other technology to only users who have the means to utilize these software, then there is no argument against the way things are at the moment ; there is no need to complain if all morality is in affect.

If you find you have to sacrifice certain of those six things to make a cut, sacrifice your way up, item by item, from the bottom.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

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 he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

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 you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

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

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

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

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

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If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.