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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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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 great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
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It is ironic that the people who complain most loudly that people cannot relate to one another, or cannot communicate are often the very sample people who urge grater individuality.
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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Source: Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IX -
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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