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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33 -
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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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 tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.
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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 that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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