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It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution.
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
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It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
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It is important for us to understand where we came from and how we got here because it would be very foolish of us to get off that horse we rode in on.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
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It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
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It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22 -
It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
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It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
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