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If a man has a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.
                -- Friedrich Nietzsche

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed.
                -- Thomas Wolfe

If a man is not a liberal at 25, he has no heart.
If he's not a conservative by 45, he has no brain.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
                -- Albert Schweitzer

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the
separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience,
it might well prolong his life.
                -- Charles Darling, "Scintillae Juris, 1877

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
... it expects what never was and never will be.
                -- Thomas Jefferson

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.
                -- W. Somerset Maugham

If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better,
and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can
convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.
                -- Sir Peter Medawar, "The Art of the Soluble"

If a putt passes over the hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped.
The law of gravity holds that any object attempting to maintain a position
in the atmosphere without something to support it must drop.  The law of
gravity supersedes the law of golf.
                -- Donald A. Metz

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce
love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
                -- Saint Augustine