Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 6747.
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It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
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It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
Source: The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919) -
It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
Source: In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000) -
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
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It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
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It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.
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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
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It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
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It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
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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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