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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
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It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
Speech Cairo, 04-06-2009 -
It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) -
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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