Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 5903.
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It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
A Short History of Nearly Everything -
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
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It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
The Remarkable Rocket (1888) -
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII -
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
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It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
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