Quotes 361 till 380 of 790.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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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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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
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It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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