If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

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

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If there be a disinterested patriot in America, 'tis General Washington, and his bravery, none can question ''.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

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.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.

If only there was a clock for him to crawl against.

If nothing is produced, there is no obligation to repay.

-- 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 there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.

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 there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

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

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 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 you ever try anything without my orders I'll kill you ''.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

If the word deliberate means anything, both of them certainly deliberately destroyed themselves.

If you can't think of a thing to do, try something -- anything.

If you grow anything to sell you will need markets nearby.

If you find out anything, come on back here and we'll get started on it ''.

If Rock shows up during the number -- or you hear anything -- give me the signal ''.

If that picture gets around and I find out you had anything to do with it, I'm going to send a couple of my boys around to see you ''.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

If God could do that, He could do anything.

If anything, her poems suggest the opposite – they speak of quietly experienced but intensely felt emotions, hidden from others, without any indication of being requited.

If an atom A is double-bonded to an atom B, A is treated as being singly bonded to two atoms: B and a ghost atom that has the same atomic number as B but is not attached to anything except A.

If this is so, there would exist nothing that could bring anything into existence.

If anything, this meant it was a more energetic variant, probably involving more kicks.

No. If I convinced myself of something thought anything at all, then I certainly existed.

If anything, the research has shown the situation is even more complex than initially imagined, and we believe not enough is known to structure the classification of psychiatric disorders according to etiology.

If A-C paired, there would be one hydrogen not bound to anything, making the DNA unstable.

If there's anything else Korzybski's work, I don't see it.

If this sounds like hyperbole, anything about Fermi is likely to sound like hyperbole ".

If liberty is taken to mean " the ability to exercise one's rights as provided for by the law and nature " then this is true, but if it means " the state when one is not held to nor required to perform anything against their will " then this is clearly false.

If a person is suffering such severe effects of hypoglycemia that they cannot ( due to combativeness ) or should not ( due to seizures or unconsciousness ) be given anything by mouth, medical personnel such as EMTs and paramedics, or in-hospital personnel can establish IV access and give intravenous dextrose, concentrations varying depending on age ( infants are given 2 ml / kg dextrose 10 %, children are given dextrose 25 %, and adults are given dextrose 50 %).

If anything, continued uprisings against the government and the threat of a renewed Central America conflict made the situation even worse.