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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.
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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
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It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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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 essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962 -
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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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 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 this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
"American Opinion, Volume 12" (Robert Welch, Inc., 1969), p. 264. Also in: "Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask" (Western Islands, -
It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
Leviathan (1651) XVIII -
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It is very difficult to tell Americans that they can't do something.
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