Quotes 4901 till 4920 of 11531.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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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 enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
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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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