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If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by
some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.
                -- Philip Hale, Boston music critic, 1837

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

If built in great numbers, motels will be used for nothing
but illegal purposes.
                -- J. Edgar Hoover

If Carter is the answer, it must have been a VERY silly question.

If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
                -- William Blake

If clear thinking created sparks, we could safely store dynamite in James
Watt's office.
                -- Wayne Shannon

If coke is a joke, I'm waiting around for the next line.

If computers take over (which seems to be their natural tendency), it will
serve us right.
                -- Alistair Cooke

If dolphins are so smart, why did Flipper work for television?

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't
deserve to have any.
                -- Oscar Wilde, reportedly while standing handcuffed in a
                driving rain, waiting for transport to prison upon his
                conviction for sodomy.