I Quotes
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“It is clear we can become conquerors over the condition we call "human". As we forge into the battle we actually need to seek to empty ourselves.”
Source: Rez Ramblings: Living on the Pine Ridge as 21st Century as an "Injun"
“It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.”
“It is clear we exist in an abundant living Universe that knows no restriction—only the impulse to eternally expand with no limits or boundaries, perpetually becoming more of what it is and can ever be—star-stuff . . . Life, pushing out by creating light and matter from within itself, shaping and giving form to itself, exquisitely clothing itself in an infinite and unique number of ways.”
Source: Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
“It is clear you don't like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”
“It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.”
“It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.”
“It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.”
“It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”
Source: Why Evolution Is True
“It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?”
“It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.”
“It is clearly absurd to limit the term 'education' to a person's formal schooling.”
“It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.”
Source: Politics
“It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.”
“it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.”
“It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.”
“It is clearly not the journey for everyone. People succeed in as many ways as there are people. Some can be completely fulfilled with destinations that are much closer to home and more comfortable. But if you long to keep going, then I hope you are able to follow my lead to the places I have gone. To within a whisper of your own personal perfection. To places that are sweeter because you worked so hard to arrive there. To places at the very edge of your dreams.”
“It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable.”
“It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.”
“It is cocaine," he said, "a seven-per-cent solution. Would you
care to try it?"
"No, indeed," I answered brusquely. "My constitution has not got
over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra
strain upon it."
He smiled at my vehemence. "Perhaps you are right, Watson," he
said. "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find
it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the
mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment.”
Source: The Sign of Four
“It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.”
Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.”
“It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.”
Source: The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war
“It is cold down in Washington, DC. They had to use an ice scraper on John Boehner's face to get the tears off, it was so cold.”
“It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.”
Source: The Trial and Triumph of Faith
“It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.”
Source: Zeno's Conscience
“It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.”
Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty
“It is comforting, after finding out that your loved one has just drowned, to estimate the number of times their life was saved by water.”
“It is comforting, however, and a source of profound relief to think that man is only a recent invention, a figure not yet two centuries old, a new wrinkle in our knowledge, and that he will disappear again as soon as that knowledge has discovered a new form.”
Source: The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
“It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.”
Source: Danube
“It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.”
“It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.”
Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2001
“It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.”
Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings
“It is commendable to be thankful, regardless of the circumstances. It costs nothing, yet it opens up many opportunities.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.”
“It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.”
Source: Modern Inquiries, Classical, Professional, and Miscellaneous
“It is common for governments to report fake war death and wounded tolls that are far lower than reality.”
“It is common for many individuals to enter into a relationship and get so consumed with trying to figure it out that they lose touch with their primary relationship, the relationship they have with their self.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“It is common for new parents to feel guilty when their babies cry. But remember - it is not the parent's fault. The parent's job is to be responsive to their baby, and to help them feel loved and secure.”
Source: What Do I Do Now? The basics of parenting babies ... without stress
“It is common for police officers to have aggression issues at home.”
“It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.”
“It is common for the partner to die shortly after the death of their significant other. They generally have similar medical conditions, same lifestyle, same diet, and so on.”
“It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.”
Source: Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume IV-II - Jeremiah to Lamentations
“It is common in high altitude astronomy to find astronomical observatories located on sparsely populated remote volcanic islands.”
“It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their "superior" self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.”
Source: The New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People
“It is common knowledge in the programmer's circle that almost every smartphone in the world is infected with some form of trojan.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“It is common knowledge that a well-bred man should as far as possible have no face. That is to say, not so much be completely without one, but rather, should have a face and yet at the same time appear faceless. It should not stand out, just as a shirt made by a good tailor does not stand out. Needless to say, the face of a well-bred man should be exactly like that of other (well-bred) men and of course in no circumstances whatsoever should it alter. Naturally houses, trees, streets, sky and everything else in the world must satisfy the same conditions to have honor of being known as respectable and well-bred.”
Source: Islanders & The Fisher of Men
“It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.”
“It is common knowledge that Saudi Arabia is the most extremist of the Muslim States. It finances the infamous Madrassas (schools) that preach a litany of hate and turn out thousands of fanatical Islamic zealots. It indirectly provides the funding and its' citizens provide most of the fighters for Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda organization. It supports, financially and by other means, the Palestinian terrorists and other Muslim anti-Western groups throughout the world.”
“It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.”