If we try to make people better off without creating wealth, we get the Greek tragedy.
But if we try to bring it up to date, try to do something contemporary, it'll just seem archaic.
If we try to play our own doctor, we are going to expose our health -- and our money -- to risk and exploitation.
So these things are possible, but they're less possible if we try to negotiate them on an hourly or daily basis in the media.
If we try to become independent, the United States will intervene.
If we try to break the back of this recession on the back of our military, then who will have our backs the next time we're attacked?
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Do we risk losing hundreds of thousands of Americans to Iraqi missiles if Saddam Hussein seizes Kuwait again and says he will retaliate if we try another Gulf war?
If we try to pursue the same ends in the same ways we always have, but with marginally more efficient technologies, we will never satisfactorily resolve the conflict between energy needs and environmental concerns.
"We're both speculating if we try to guess whether NRA and the developer had this in their back pocket, waiting for the right time, or whether the release date is mere accident, " Bogost said.
"If we try to lurch into this thing without bringing with us what will probably be the majority of the countries of the world, it would be extremely unwise and very dangerous, " he warned.
If we can try those terrorists in our courts and hold them in our prisons, then we can do the same with detainees from Guantanamo.
We couldn't hear each other even if we did try to have a conversation.
What will be the impact on movement controls this autumn if we do try to buy stock?
And if we do try again to adopt a national long-term care insurance system, should it be mandatory or voluntary?
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Even if we do try to make it more about uniting instead of separating, you have to acknowledge there are differences between men and women.
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Before starting yet another war in the Middle East, it would be nice if we could try and remember the success of the strategy of containment, one of the most competently executed grand strategies in history.
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And if we do try to combine both public and private insurance, should the federal government cover, say, the first year or two of care or should it provide only catastrophic benefits (say, all costs after that first year).
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If we wanted to try something out of the norm, we needed their approval and permission.
So, if we are to try and reduce the distortions from the tax code we want to move from the latter part of the spectrum to the earlier.
In contrast, if we were to try and reduce the trade deficit by on-shoring manufacturing that has gone overseas, those would be low wage jobs.
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We decided that if we must wear tuxedos then we would try to customize them so they would set us apart from the rest of the flock of penguin-suits patrolling the courgette, er Croisette.
"That's good, but I mean, again, I'm not in this for Coach of the Year, I'm in to try to see if we can get this team to the championship round to try to win a title, " Woodson said.
And since the Dish has, from its beginnings, attempted to pioneer exactly such a solid future for web journalism, we also felt we almost had a duty to try and see if we could help break some new ground.
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But the talks with them so far have been quite positive, and if we can keep him, we'll try our best to do that.
"If we do not succeed, we have to try for another eight years in order to take back the country's management, " Velayati said in a February speech in the seminary city of Qom.
If we do not even try to restrict the use of these loans, is it not at least possible, and in fact likely, that the Soviets will use a significant portion of these funds to finance their ever growing military budget, or to support their other activities around the globe that are inimical to our interests?
If we all pull together and really try to be the best country possible, we can be at least as good as the original cast of "Cats"which is to say, we can be magical.
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