Quotes 341 till 360 of 802.
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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 dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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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 not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
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It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
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It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
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It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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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 very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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