Quotes 261 till 280 of 615.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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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 easy to be brave when far away from danger.
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII -
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32 -
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
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It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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