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If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?

If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?

Ernest Sosa

Ifs And, Assessment, Risk

Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

Erma Bombeck

Ifs And, Feet, Half

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

e. e. cummings

Weed, Ifs And, Rose

E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ready to undergo stillmore complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.

Charles Darwin

Science, Light, Ifs And

"The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" edited by Francis Darwin, Volume III, Ch. 1, (p. 18), 1887.

My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges.

Cassandra Clare

Strong, Thinking, Ifs And

"The Last Book of The Mortal Instruments Series Has Arrived, and It's Full of Juicy Lust and Betrayal". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. May 29, 2014.

There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.

Ayn Rand

Helping Others, Ifs And, People

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

Ayn Rand

Ifs And, Issues, Use