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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
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It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
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It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
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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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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962 -
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
Source: Camera in London
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