Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 4330.
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
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It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
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It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
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It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
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It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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