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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

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

It takes your enemy and your friend,working together,to hurt you to your heart:the one to slander you and the other to bring the news to you.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It the intent & content of the movie are truly good and the recruitment of its cast & crew has been done for their talent only, then there is perhaps no need to go places or on any platform for its promotion as, sooner or later, it will gain its deserved word of mouth publicity.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.

– Ira CarmenRate it:

It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

– Lionel MessiRate it:

It took me a long time to learn how to write a good song.

– Bob SegerRate it:

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.

– Robert BenchleyRate it:

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

– Robert BenchleyRate it:

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

– Madeleine AlbrightRate it:

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

– Hank AaronRate it:

It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

– Douglas HostadterRate it:

It turns out that the economics of the world is ideally parimutuel.

– Link StarbureiyRate it:

It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

– Friedrich August von HayekRate it:

It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home.

– Alvaro de SolvaRate it:

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.

– AnonymousRate it:

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

– Mark TwainRate it:

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

– Pope Pius XIRate it:

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

– Dame Rose MacaulayRate it:

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

– George Orwell, "1984", first sentenceRate it:

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

– Edward Bulwer-LyttonRate it:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Paul CliffordRate it:

It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves.

– FelthamRate it:

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