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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
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It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
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It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
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It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
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It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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It makes no difference whom you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
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It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
Source: Storage and Stability Part IV, Ch. XVI, Reservoir Plan Versus Crop Contr
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