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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.
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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.
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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 impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
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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.
Future Shock (1970) -
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
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