Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 6832.
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It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
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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 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 temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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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.
Cosmos (1980) 98 -
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
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It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
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