Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 4570.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
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It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4 -
It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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