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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
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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 indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
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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 no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
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It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
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It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
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It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.
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It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
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It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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