Quotes 10721 till 10740 of 26499.
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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 rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
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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 sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
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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 a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII -
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
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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 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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