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If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.

If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!

If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

If the world powers are not prepared to insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal is signed, at the very least they should insist that Iran change its behavior before a deal expires.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?

...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.

If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

If we were to go back in time 100 years and ask a farmer what he'd like if he could have anything, he'd probably say he wanted a horse that was twice as strong and ate half as many oats. He would not say he wanted a tractor. The point is, technology changes things so fast that many people aren't sure what the best solutions to their problems might be.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

If you ask me 'What is the one great move you can make to improve the Israeli economy?' of course it will be signing an agreement with the Arab world about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This will change everything.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

If you don't change, you will become extinct.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If you don't wake up every day happy, change something.