Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 5195.
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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.
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It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.
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It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
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It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
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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 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.
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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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