Quotes 3741 till 3760 of 8505.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109 -
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Source: Cosmos (1980) 98 -
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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