Quotes 4941 till 4960 of 12035.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
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It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
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It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
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It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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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 difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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