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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
The Economist (November 1955) -
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Æsop's Fables, Reflection -
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
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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 isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
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It just doesn't attract me. I'm of a certain period, a certain evolution. I hear music differently I mean, for me, comparing electric bass to acoustic bass is sacrilege.
About Electric music instruments -
It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
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It matters if you just don't give up.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C.S. Lewis on joy -
It may be risky to marry for love, but it's so honest that the Lord just has to smile on it.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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It s not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.
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