Quotes 421 till 440 of 1001.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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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 often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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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 so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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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 common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
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It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
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It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues.
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It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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