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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.
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything -
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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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 demeaning to the Nation that within the Clinton administration, a corps of the elite who never grew up, never did anything real, never sacrificed, never suffered, and never learned.
Source: Acceptance speech for Republican presidential nomination, San Diego, 15 August 1996 -
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 easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
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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 important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
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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 necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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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 just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
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