Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 3662.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
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It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
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It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
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