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“It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“It is incredible that this must be said, but the obvious seems to escape politicized academics, so we must state the obvious: Genocide is deliberate; it is premeditated. There is no genocide without premeditation. The murders are not unfortunate coincidences. This is why it is called "mass MURDER" and not "mass MANSLAUGHTER.”
“It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.”
“It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of 'news' for every rock news outlet around the world.”
“It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.”
“It is incredibly damaging to deceive ourselves into an emotional state of misery. Remain vigilant.”
“It is incredibly daunting to take on a live-action story. I think that it adds a level of complexity to the responsibility that goes beyond what I've experienced on these two films (The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who).”
“It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.”
“It is incredibly important to remain receptive to the meandering flow of time.”
“It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents.”
“It is incumbent on a great nation to remain confident, if it wishes to remain free. We need not be ignorant to real threats to our safety, against which we must remain vigilant. We need only to banish to the ash heap of history the notion that we ought to be ruled by our fears and those who use them to enhance their own power.”
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that minds afflicted by calamity and the contempt of mankind cheerfully listen to the divine promise of future happiness; while, on the contrary, the fortunate are satisfied with the possession of this world; and the wise abuse in doubt and dispute their vain superiority of reason and knowledge.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.”
“It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.”
“It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.”
“It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.”
Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords
“It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most Mighty Branch (Abdu'l-Baha). Thus have We graciously revealed unto you our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful.”
“It is incumbent upon the student to go to the teacher to learn.”
“It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.”
“It is incumbent upon us to do what we can, even if we cannot do much.”
Source: Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress
“It is incumbent upon us to list you your fears lest you forget them: that of being needy; of being clingy; of being odd; of being invisible; of being visible; of being shamed; of being shunned; of being deceived; of being bullied, of being abandoned; of being hit; of being talked about; of being pitied; of being mocked; of being thought both "child" and at the same time "old woman"; of anger; of others; of making mistakes; of knowing instinctively; of sadness; of loneliness; of failure; of loss; of love; of death. If not death, then of living - of the body, its needs, its bits, its daring bits, its unwanted bits. Then the shudders, the ripples, our legs turning to pulp because of those shudders and ripples. On a scale of one to ten, nine and nine-tenths of us believe in the loss of our power and in succumbing to weakness, also in the slyness of others. In instability too, we believe. Nine and nine-tenths of us think we are spied upon, that we replay old trauma, that we are tight and unhappy and numb in our facial expression. These are our fears, Dear Susannah Eleanor Lizabetta Effie. Note them please. Remember these points please. Susannah, oh our Susannah. We are afraid.”
Source: Milkman
“It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.”
“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“It is indeed a feeble light that reaches us from the starry sky. But what would human thought have achieved if we could not see the stars?”
“It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)
“It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.”
“It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels”
“It is indeed a paradox that Mahāyāna Buddhism, in making the moral code flexible in the interests of compassion, ends up justifying killing to an extent far greater than Mainstream Buddhism.”
Source: Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations
“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”
Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
“It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.”
“It is indeed a song of steps. And as I have often said to you, these steps are not made to descend but to ascend. The questioner wishes then to ascend; and where does he wish to ascend if not to heaven? What does this mean—to ascend to heaven? Does he wish to ascend so as to be in the heavens with the sun, the moon, and the stars? Far from that! But there is in heaven an eternal Jerusalem where the angels, our co-citizens, are. From these co-citizens we on earth are estranged. In this exile we sigh; in the city we shall have joy.”
“It is indeed a striking proof of the essential soundness of the tradition that with which all these thousands of copies, tracing their ancestry back to so many different parts of the earth and to conditions of such diverse kinds, the variations of text are so entirely questions of detail, not of essential substance.”
“It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.”
“It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.”
Source: Birds of a Feather
“It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!”
Source: Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay
“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.”
“It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.”
Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.”
Source: The Rambler
“It is indeed challenging to consider a dream within a dream as a dream, almost like getting lost within oneself.”
Source: Segue of Spiritual Whispers: Baat Se Baat
“It is indeed curious that engagement in paid work should represent such a powerful symbol of maturity and independence, given the realities of employment as a situation of profound dependency. I speak not only of the dependency inherent in the wage relation, but also of the dependency on commercial products and services, which become the only way to meet certain needs after work has drained our time and energy. [ch.six]”
Source: The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”
“It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.”
“It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.”
“It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.”
“It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed”
Source: The Tale of Genji
“It is indeed not easy to distinguish affectation from habit; he that has once studiously developed a style, rarely writes afterwards with complete ease.”
Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observation on Their Works
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused in a proactive way on America's racial-caste legacy. This represents a fundamental moral crisis of modern American conservatism.... American conservatives typically ignored the authoritarian and violent racial-caste practices and values arrayed against black Americans in southern states where the vast majority of blacks live. On the other hand, American conservatives have, throughout this century, often embraced freedom movements elsewhere in the world --in Europe, Latin America, East Asia-- but always firmly resisting a proactive embrace of the black American civil rights movement as a bona fide freedom movement fully worthy of their support. So it is in the shadow of this dismal record of mainstream American conservatism vis-a-vis black Americans' long and arduous quest for equality of status that new black conservatives have emerged.”
“It is indeed one of the principal drawbacks of every kind of interventionism that it is so difficult to reverse the process.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist