Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 4584.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
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It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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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 the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
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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, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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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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