Quotes 701 till 720 of 1686.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
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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 never too late to be what you might have been.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy -
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
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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 the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
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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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