We’ve collected the best Unless Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Andrew Garfield, Maya Angelou, Action Bronson, Abraham Lincoln, Emma Chamberlain. Use them as an inspiration.
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
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Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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It’s not about what the speaker wants. It’s not about necessarily what I want. There’s two other principles involved here. It’s what the constituents in my district want, and they didn’t want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.
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Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you’re not going to be able to be an individual.
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Freedom without rules doesn’t work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
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Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing. That’s a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
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Always be yourself… unless you suck.
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No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing.
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There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
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I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
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The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
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What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won’t understand that if we don’t protect those habitats, we’ll eventually destroy ourselves.
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For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
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It helps to be able to be alone. ‘Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don’t do that. Ask my ex-wife.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
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I’ve learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it’s not, really. It’s pretending that it’s a band.
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In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism – which means small government, a great emphasis on markets – but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
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Unless you have bad times, you can’t appreciate the good times.
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Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there’s not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.
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Nothing is really real unless it happens on television.
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Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain’t got nothin‘.
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Unless you are a good bowler, you won’t be in the India A side.
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Unless you have a sense of values that’s shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn’t work very well.
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You can’t win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn’t win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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I am not anybody’s fan – unless you’re talking about Rajinikanth.
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I think it’s the hardest part for about 80 percent of the guys in the NBA. That’s just the way it is in the NBA, unless you’re a mega superstar. You’re just going to play wherever you go. You try to find the right fit and the right team with the right system and the right coach at the right time.
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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
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PayPal exists because banks are not interoperable: I can’t efficiently pay you $10 unless I’m giving you a $10 bill. So we’re all on PayPal and Venmo, I need interoperability on the same ledger.
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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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I’m not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it’s really that simple.
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Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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If you’re going to go for a thing, there’s no point unless you’re going all the way.
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Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.
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Everyone’s had an interesting life. Unless they’re interested in business or something.
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I’ve just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: ‘You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?’ I tell them I wouldn’t do it unless I understood and had an interest.
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
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As an actor, you may do things that aren’t politically correct. Unless you’re an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don’t do the good, bad, and the ugly, we’re not going to progress.
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All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of global cooperation. It’s not just climate change, which is, like, the most obvious example people give. I think more in terms of technological disruption.
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You don’t get recognized that much unless you want to get recognized, like if you go to the fancy joints and that. It’s like, L.A. – there are 10 restaurants. If you want to be seen, you go.
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Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
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Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli–Palestinian issue you won’t get a real start on the war against terrorism.
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In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of ‘our institutions‘ unless you are making them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions don’t protect themselves. They go down like dominoes unless each is defended from the beginning.
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
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Unless you come to terms with your past… it haunts you, and you never leave it.
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Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I’m so concerned.
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you’re trained in design, it won’t look very good and it won’t communicate very well.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
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I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
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I do believe in living out your own time, unless it’s absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
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In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you’re going do unless you’re faced with it.
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No man is fit to be a Senator… unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.
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Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Talent alone won’t make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ‘Are your ready?’
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.
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To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn’t architecture unless it’s alive. Alive is what art is. If it’s not alive, it’s dead, and it’s not art.
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I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don’t get a lot of work sometimes.
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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You’re not allowed to speak your mind unless you’re black, or unless you’re a terrorist, or unless you’re an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I’m listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won’t get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive.
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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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In theatres, you’re kind of disconnected. Also, it’s way too big for the likes of me. Unless you’re Robin Williams or someone that can fill a stage with movement and energy, it just looks like a small man on a big stage.
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Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.
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Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
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No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
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But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.
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Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen.
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I don’t think you can say yes to every opportunity and work the weekends and work the overnight shift unless you’re really passionate about your job. So I encourage everyone to find their passion and go for it.
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Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
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The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern society. Unless they are reasonably well-educated, they can’t deal with them.
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One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
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Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.
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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age.
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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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Less is more, unless you’re Al Gore.
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Who doesn’t want to have a yacht? But I would prefer to invest my money in something else. But I love them. I just wouldn’t buy one unless I had a lot, a lot of money.
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I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.
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Unless it’s an emergency, don’t bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
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What is not conservative about saying, ‘Don’t go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?’
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I couldn’t care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.
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The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
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Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there’s corrections you have to make.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.
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How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California‘s open space and environmental beauty.
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Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
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We will not know unless we begin.
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
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You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
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I don’t like laughing at people unless they’re in a privileged position or if they’re in authority. If it’s poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I’d rather be laughing with them.
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I’ll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again.
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Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
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The Roman Catholics teach that unless you’re a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
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I think that if journalists, reporters who spend a lot of time on a story, are honest with themselves, we all have feelings about our subjects – I mean, unless you’re a robot.
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Viewers can’t expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let’s face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by ‘beefing’.
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The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
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It’s easy to get a loan unless you need it.
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I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
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Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.
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The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.
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Nothing changes overnight unless you win an Oscar. You move up a little bit, but you are always a little fish – just in a slightly bigger pond.
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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
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But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.
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My character is ‘Get up and keep fighting,’ unless I’ve been nailed to the ground.
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You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.
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People don’t walk away from their homes unless they can’t make the payments. That’s an indication that we are in a recession.
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Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There’s no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he’s doing an acting job.
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What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.
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Liberty is the only thing you can’t have unless you give it to others.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.
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It’s difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you’re bad. To play a nice guy is harder – unless you are a very nice person like me of course.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Everything I do is me. I don’t like taking ideas from people unless they’re the G.O.A.T.
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
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Unless you’re Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
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Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
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People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don’t end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
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Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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I don’t think a powerful man would be interesting unless he’d be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!
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I just don’t believe that ‘no’ is always a final answer – unless we’re talking about consent.
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There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
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You can’t go wrong with pizza, unless it’s terrible pizza.
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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that… the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
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I want to be convinced with my work and unless that happens I can’t make a movie.
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I don’t do anything unless I can give it 100%.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
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I’m such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don’t want to make a picture.
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You’re not going to go far unless you’re a workaholic.
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My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we’re basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it’s a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you’ve done it, you really can’t understand what it is. And if you’re not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.
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It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.
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I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.
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I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
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I tell it like it is, but I don’t voice my opinion unless it’s asked for.
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I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I’m never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.
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I think that’s the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn’t seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
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The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over.
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I know people get upset and go, ‘They’re going to take away the assault weapon’. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you’re carrying out an assault.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there’s great talent involved.
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We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
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Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
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This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.
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You’re not anyone in America unless you’re on TV.
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You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
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I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it’s worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It’s not on any map, so unless you know it’s there, you won’t find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It’s great!
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What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director‘s interests and the actors’ interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.
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I don’t think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.
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We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none.
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Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn’t just the ’40s, either. In the ’30s and in the ’50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
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Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
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I think standup is pretty good for an introvert because you are performing, but, I mean, it’s on your own terms. There are so many people in the room, but it’s a one-sided conversation. And you actually don’t have to interact – unless you want to.
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I’m prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they’re bad.
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I don’t like to cry in public, unless I’m getting paid for it.
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Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
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I have been a loner… even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties – unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.
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India has a high level of corruption, a lethargic bureaucracy and is low on accountability. Investigations are long drawn and often aimless; those in power are rarely sacked for incompetence unless the media sets up a serious clamour for justice.
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Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
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No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
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I’m not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
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We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
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It’s not accidental that products get worse over time; it’s because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
402
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
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You’re not really ready to live unless you know what you’re willing to die for.
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Whether you’re successful or not, you’ll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you’re really just setting yourself up for failure.
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Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
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I can’t think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it’s one I simply don’t know anything about.
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I don’t see myself ever retiring, unless it’s for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don’t see the necessity to retire from anything unless there’s a really great alternative.
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You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won’t go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time’s up.
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Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
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Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
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We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
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We’ve opened our borders wide open to be flooded with illegal aliens coming into our country. This is the precedent that has been, and it will continue to happen unless we secure our border.
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That’s another piece of advice: Don’t go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you’re a doctor – then go to college.
422
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn’t mean much if you don’t have a solid foundation in what you’re experimenting with. You can’t really deviate from music unless you know music; it’s not gonna work.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
427
When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
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It’s always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
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I don’t leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.
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I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.
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You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
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No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
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Man is not free unless government is limited.
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Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any money doing it.
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You can’t be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.
448
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
449
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
450
You don’t contest shots without expending energy. You don’t get deflections – unless you walk into one every now and then – without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so without preserving the other, unless I commit perjury, which I certainly don’t intend to do. We must cherish the Constitution to the last.
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A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
455
Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
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Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.
457
If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that’s not much – unless you’ve been warned that if you’re even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.
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They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is ‘unless they’re Harrison Ford.’
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We can’t go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, ‘Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,’ unless we can demonstrate that it is in America’s interest. I happen to think it is.
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I generally don’t like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.
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No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it’s something really spectacular, don’t tweet me your breakfast, I don’t care.
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People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
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I am a social democrat – I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice – but… you can’t do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.
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You don’t get any better unless you’re around guys who know more than you.
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People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it’s going to be a sure thing, and let’s face it: film is never a sure thing.
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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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You really should not do this job unless you’re willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you’re willing to take risks. And you shouldn’t do the job unless you’re willing to lose the job, too.
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I know how difficult it is to learn languages, since I am working in three regional industries in South India, and unless the director wants my voice to be dubbed, I do my own dubbing.
482
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
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Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
484
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
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It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
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Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
489
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn’t work unless people are well informed, and I don’t know that we are. People just don’t have the time.
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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It’s a sad day in this country when you can’t talk about law and order unless they want to call you a racist.
496
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
497
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
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It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn’t mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
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You’re never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
501
You can’t look at the dollar and say, ‘I’m not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it’s a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.’ That’s not good.
502
If I’ve learned anything from TJ, it’s that life is a fine balance of holding on, letting go, and never looking back unless it’s to admire how far you’ve come.
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We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
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Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.
506
If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
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No one is ever really dead unless we find the body.
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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
511
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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I’ve never set out consciously to write American music. I don’t know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
522
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
523
You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
524
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth – that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
525
I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.
526
In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you’re just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you’ve got a twin brother who’s also a stand-up.
527
It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.
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We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.
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It’s very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I’m actually taking a pee at the time.
533
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.
534
I’m a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don’t think I’d ever change back unless it was for a film.
535
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
536
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
537
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
538
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
539
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
540
When someone’s acting for a scene, they can fool the camera. But in everyday life, unless you’re watching and censoring yourself every minute, or spending all your time in the company of ladies, what you feel is bound to show in your eyes.
541
You can only follow what’s on your mind. In fact, a song is something you write because you can’t sleep unless you write it.
542
I don’t go to celebrity parties a lot. I don’t really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people… it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift’s birthday party; then it’s amazing.
543
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
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Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.
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The frustrating part of it is that you’re generally known for what you did last. I’ve had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn’t see unless you’re at a film festival or you’re into that kind of movie.
548
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.
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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
551
Unless you are aggressive, you will never become number one.
552
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
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You can’t have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don’t have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
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You won’t understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.
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Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
558
You can’t win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them – you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
559
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable… and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker‘s questions to become comprehensible.
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity.
565
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
566
The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
567
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
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I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night – or any other time, for that matter – unless they were dressed to the nines.
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Being a sex symbol isn’t cool unless you’re in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
575
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
576
I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
577
Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit – unless George Burns is there – and then I have a ball.
578
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
579
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you’re there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
580
Don’t do a startup unless you’re ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
581
Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.
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Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.
584
I don’t care what people think of me, unless they think I’m mean or something, but I don’t care if they think I’m like someone else because I know I’m not – I’m a total weirdo. I’m not selling a dream; I’m not selling fame like it is some sort of fantastic thing. I’m just trying to sell music and get on with my real life.
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Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party… unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
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‘Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
592
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
593
I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I’ve learned that that stuff isn’t real, and it doesn’t exist unless you look at it.
594
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
595
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
599
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
600
If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don’t have a future.
601
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
602
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
603
I don’t like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?
604
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
605
I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.
606
Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer‘s epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive – and ultimately fatal – disease unless its course can be altered.
607
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can’t meet the demands of being a modern society.
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Roosevelt‘s strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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I’m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don’t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
616
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.
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I have some fond memories – a couple of the nights on the town … a couple of songs I wrote when I was messed up that I’m sure wouldn’t have come out of me unless I was messed up. It’s kind of happy-sad about those days – I could do anything I wanted to. I did. And now I don’t want to do any of that.
621
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
622
I’m a guy’s guy. I don’t comb my hair unless I have to, and I don’t use lotions or fancy shampoos.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
628
But celebrity really doesn’t mean anything unless you use it for finding some way to give back and I’ve always felt that way.
629
Writing is a lonely job unless you’re a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
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You don’t get to be the best unless you dedicate yourself to what you are doing.
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I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it’s tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.
636
In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.
637
Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
638
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
639
Unless people are in the shoes of a child actor, they don’t realise how difficult it can be at times. I definitely enjoy what I’m doing, though.
640
I never sympathise with the accused unless there’s a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don’t ever sympathise with the criminal.
641
These race cars are dangerous and you don’t put someone in one unless you are 100 per cent certain that they can do what they need to do and be safe in the car.
642
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
643
I didn’t know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I’d never killed a character before.
644
It’s absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
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No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
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Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
653
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it’s World War III.
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Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
658
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
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When it comes to politics, unless it’s an issue that’s really close to home and you feel strongly about, I just don’t think you should really talk about it.
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It’s only words… unless they’re true.
663
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
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Sex is a part of love. You shouldn’t go around doing it unless you are in love.
666
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a ‘record shot’. My first thought is always of light.
667
I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.
668
My biggest secret is that I don’t over-wash my hair. I wash it twice a week at the most, unless I’m on set every day.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
671
Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
675
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
676
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
677
Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
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To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.
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If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
681
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
684
I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
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I’m not so mean. I wouldn’t ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately – unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
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