Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4622.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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It is more than possible; it is probable.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893) -
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
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It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
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It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
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It is my supposition that the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.
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It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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