Quotes 6621 till 6640 of 15856.
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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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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
The picture of Dorian Gray -
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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