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It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Pensees (1669) -
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
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It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109 -
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
A Short History of Nearly Everything -
It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
The Remarkable Rocket (1888) -
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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