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If and is
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 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 and honest
If Blanche had been
honest, she would have yelled
, slammed at least a couple of doors
, and thrown a few little
, valueless things.
If he does
, it's still better than
an even chance he won't notice the transposition of the numbers
, and if he
should notice
it, the thing can be passed off as
an honest mistake.
If a lock
, let
it have been made in whatever country
, or by whatever maker
, is not so inviolable as
it has hitherto been deemed
to be
, surely
it is to the interest of
honest persons
to know this fact
, because the dishonest are tolerably certain
to apply the knowledge practically ; and the spread of the knowledge
is necessary
to give fair play
to those who might suffer by ignorance.
If they turned
to illegality
it was due
to the fact that
honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity
, while any complaints resulted in the sack ;
to avoid starvation through lack of work
it was necessary
to beg or steal
, and
to avoid conscription into the army many of them had
to go on the run.
If a lock
, let
it have been made in whatever country
, or by whatever maker
, is not so inviolable as
it has hitherto been deemed
to be
, surely
it is to the interest of
honest persons
to know this fact
, because the dishonest are tolerably certain
to apply the knowledge practically ; and the spread of the knowledge
is necessary
to give fair play
to those who might suffer by ignorance.

The conclave that elected him had lasted for six months
, and he
is reported
to have said
to the cardinals: "
If you wish
to elect a saint
, choose Gotti ; a statesman
, Aldrovandi ;
an honest man
, me ".
If you are a scoundrel
, do
not approach the tomb ; but if you are
honest and from worthy stock
, sit down in confidence and
, if you like
, fall asleep.

*" The
honest ethnographer " –
If research participants know the research goals
, their responses will likely be skewed.
If a student
, by his own study and mental force
, reached the desired point which the musician's wizardry had made him see
, he gained reliance in his own strength
, knowing he would always find that point again even though he
should lose his way once or twice
, as everyone with
an honest aspiration
is liable
to do.
If you desire
to have a Castle detective employed about the United Irishman office in Trinity Street I shall make no objection
, provided the man be sober and
honest.

" It
is true that the moneylender Moses
is portrayed in a comparatively positive light
, but the way he
is described ( as a " friendly Jew " and
an "
honest Israelite " by Rowley in III. 1 ) suggest that he
is in some way
to be considered
an exception
to Jews in general ; also
, his own usurious business practices as stated
to Sir Peter are clearly less than exemplary ( e. g., his statement "
If he appears
not very anxious for the supply
, you
should require only forty or fifty per cent ; but if you find him in great distress
, and want the moneys very bad
, you may ask double " ).
If it's a crime
to represent people in
an effort
to make
honest settlements
, then he has committed a crime.

In a joint 31 March 2010 interview following the band's reformation
, upon being asked what he had missed about Doherty
, Barat replied
, "
If I'm
honest, I miss having a best friend who
, for all his foibles
, who got me ... you know
, when you meet someone who gets you and you get them on the deepest level
, I mean that ... that's something that I always missed about Pete.
If we felt
it wasn't as good
, then we
should just be
honest about
it.
If Peggy
is honest, she can easily satisfy Victor's demand for either a graph isomorphism ( which
she has ) or a Hamiltonian cycle ( which
she can construct by applying the isomorphism
to the cycle in G ).
If one was
honest and supportive
, one was
not very bright ; if one was bright and supportive
, one was
not honest ; if one was
honest and bright
, one was
not supportive.
If you were
honest, the challenger must take the pile in his hand ( and it's your turn
to start the new pile ), and if you lied
, you must take the pile ( and the turn passes
to the next player ).
If you really believe in freedom and limited government
, to be intellectually consistent and
honest you have
to oppose efforts of the majority
to impose their will on people.
If I was faithful
to duty
, and
honest and industrious
, I felt that I would be preserved
, and that I could make enough
to support my family.
If we are
honest about
it, a performance in a concert by Women composers
is a humiliation for the music.
If he misread the ultrasound results
, that was
an honest error.
If the truth
is that those who converted
to Muggletonianism did so as a result of inner contemplation
, then Richard Farnham and John Bull may have been more
honest in explaining their own calling as resulting from their perusal of scripture.
If and feeling
If you've travelled in Europe a time or two
, it is quite certain that you've had that wanting-to-be-alone
feeling or that you will get
it on your next visit across the Atlantic.
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 Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird
feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past
, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.
If we have
to get the
feeling that everything that we do will show up in the newspapers tomorrow
, you'll get whitewashed statements.
If it had been anyone other than Jesus up on that cross
, I have a
feeling that NC-17 would have been automatic.
If a target of opportunity presents itself
, even a target above the waist
, one could take advantage of the situation without
feeling hampered by this principle.
If we look from a far distance
, we have the
feeling of pale zones when the lines are superimposed
, ( there
is white between the lines ), and of dark zones when the lines are " opposed ".
If a muscle has impaired function following
an upper motor neuron lesion
, other changes such as increased muscle stiffness are likely
to affect the
feeling of resistance
to passive stretch.

His overview of Serling's writing says
, "
If there
is anything that unites the whole of Serling's works – whether
it be short stories or film scripts
, whether
it be fantastic or mainstream –
it is an abiding concern with human
feeling.

Feng Xun
is recorded as stating
, "
If you remove the shoes and bindings
, the aesthetic
feeling will be destroyed forever "—
an indication that men understood that the symbolic erotic fantasy of bound feet did
not correspond
to its unpleasant physical reality
, which was therefore
to be kept hidden.
If I had a second motive
it was no more than a
feeling such as I would have for a dangerous reptile.
If Pica
is motivated by sensory feedback
, an alternative method of
feeling that sensation
should be provided.
If the actual sensations match predictions
, we experience the
feeling of agency.
If there
is a mismatch between the body and its predicted position
, perhaps due
to obstructions or other cognitive disruption
, no
feeling of agency occurs.
If the interaction
is not goal oriented
, the user can explore the character of the pet and enjoy the
feeling of building a relationship with
it.
If you play with a
feeling of ' Oh
, I know this ,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that
is necessary and the audience feels
it.
If the statements of the laws of phyiscs were assumed correct
, one would have had
to suppose ( as did most philosophers ) that the
feeling of freedom
is illusory
, or if choice were considered effective
, that the laws of physics ...

" He also suggested that Harvard would
not be facing this issue if other universities and colleges would admit Jews in similar numbers: "
If every college in the country would take a limited proportion of Jews
, I suspect we
should go a long way toward eliminating race
feeling among the students.
If an employee feels underpaid
then it will result in the employee
feeling hostile towards the organization and perhaps their co-workers
, which may result in the employee
not performing well at work anymore.
If the preference
is more complex
, such as involving the scenery of the route
, cognition and
feeling are more intertwined
, and the choice
is less easy
to delegate
to a computer program or assistant.

" "
If there
is any guilty
feeling it's like the guilt that soldiers feel when they survive the battle while their friends were killed ".
If I had
to listen
to her
, I probably would have developed a little bit of a segregationist
feeling.

Some of his short pieces – e. g.: "
If there were dreams
to sell ," ( Dream-Pedlary ) and "
If thou wilt ease thine heart ," ( Death's Jest-Book
, Act II ) – are masterpieces of intense
feeling exquisitely expressed.
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