Quotes 4181 till 4200 of 10234.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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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 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 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 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 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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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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