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It is by chance we met by choice we became friends.

– UnknownRate it:

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

– Edmund BurkeRate it:

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

– Eric HofferRate it:

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

– Edgar Allan PoeRate it:

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

– Oliver Wendell HolmesRate it:

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

– T.S. ElliotRate it:

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

– Thomas ElliotRate it:

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....

– Richard BachRate it:

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

– Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)Rate it:

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

– Charles BaudelaireRate it:

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

– Mentat PrayerRate it:

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

– Camille PagliaRate it:

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught, as men take diseases, one from another; therefore, let all take heed as to the society in which they mingle, for in a little while they will be like it.

– Rule of LifeRate it:

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.

– Edgar QuinetRate it:

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

– Marquis de SadeRate it:

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

– PlutarchRate it:

It is certainly difficult to get the first breakthrough of acquiring a client in a cut-throat competitive world, but it is definitely even more difficult to retain the client and keep it professionally satisfied.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

It is challenging to extend forgiveness to someone you struggle to genuinely love, yet refusing to forgive them becomes an act of unlove, chaining yourself to a form of captivity. It is another way of embracing confinement.

– Christen KuikouaRate it:

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

– Isaac AsimovRate it:

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

– Freeman John DysonRate it:

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to human material.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

It is cheaper to educate than to incarcerate.

– Mark KantrowitzRate it:

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