Quotes 5801 till 5820 of 13894.
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It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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It is fortunate for this community that I am not a criminal.
Source: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1908) -
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
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It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
Source: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
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