Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 3161.
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It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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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 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.
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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 absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Source: Cosmos (1980) 98 -
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 difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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