Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 5916.
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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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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
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It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
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It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
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It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
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