Quotes 10421 till 10440 of 25371.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
Source: On War (1832) -
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 explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
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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 extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32 -
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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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 foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
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It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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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 a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
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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 taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Source: Pensees
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