Quotes 501 till 520 of 1140.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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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 necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.
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It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.
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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
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