Quotes 321 till 340 of 885.
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It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
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It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
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It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's ''mature'' critics often are.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
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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 not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
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