Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 5261.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
Down and Out in Paris and London Ch. 33 -
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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