Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 4584.
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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.
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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
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It is no sign of intellectual greatness to hold other men cheaply. A great intellect takes for granted that other men are more or less like itself.
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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble!
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It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
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