Quotes 4141 till 4160 of 10234.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
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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 man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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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 a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
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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 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 the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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