I Quotes
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“It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes.”
“It is interesting that the international astronomy community are trying to develop the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) at the same time as the biological science clearly states that it needs to be demolished on the grounds of worker health and safety.”
“It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.”
“It is interesting that this thoroughness, which is a virtue, is often misunderstood. When someone says a thing has been done scientifically, often all he means is that it has been done thoroughly. I have heard people talk of the "scientific" extermination of the Jews in Germany. There was nothing scientific about it. It was only thorough. There was no question of making observations and then checking them in order to determine something. In that sense, there were "scientific" exterminations of people in Roman times and in other periods when science was not so far developed as it is today and not much attention was paid to observation. In such cases, people should say "thorough" or "thoroughgoing," instead of "scientific.”
“It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,” but being called a “dreamer” is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world. If you are a secret dreamer, it’s your time to announce yourself.”
“It is interesting that we know how the world and the planetary systems work, but we don’t know how we think and why we are conscious.”
“It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.”
“It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.”
“It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.”
“It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.”
“It is interesting to consider that beverages like coffee, chocolate and even sherbet, seemingly innocuous to us (because they are non-alcoholic) began life in England as dangerous, expensive and exciting symbols of dissidence...
---Antonia Fraser, King Charles II”
Source: The Chocolate Maker's Wife
“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.”
Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
“it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists”
Source: God is Not Great
“It is interesting to me that the secularizers bend over backward in our federally controlled schools to keep atheists from being offended by the mention of God, prayer, or morality, yet over the federally controlled airwaves Christians can be offended every day of the week by the broadcasting of blasphemy against God and the Lord Jesus Christ or attacks on our moral values.”
Source: A Nation Without a Conscience
“It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.”
Source: The Cry for Myth
“It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.”
“It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.”
Source: Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude
“It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.”
“It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.”
“It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.”
“It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying a carnival period of phenomenal optimism, and the shadowy side surfaced with all of its attendant dark, beautiful, baroque, catholic symbolism.”
“It is interesting to note that the overwhelming majority of all human beings who have ever lived were or currently are Pagans.”
Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Women's Spirituality
“It is interesting to notice that where life is simple and natural and where the children participate in the adult’s life, they are calm and happy.”
Source: The 1946 London Lectures
“It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.”
Source: Paul Klee Notebooks: The thinking eye
“It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.”
“It is interesting to observe that the more I insult someone with the word stupid and the more one judges me as arrogant, the more that same individual refuses to know what I know, read what I write, therefore entrapping himself in ignorance and egotism for many more years of his life, proving that people are only victims of their decisions, not their circumstances.”
“It is interesting to see government law enforcement officers arresting Hawaiians that are protesting the illegal Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea.”
“It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.”
“It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.”
“It is interesting to see that Mary Magdalene is in line with these Gnostic principles, where she focuses on the Divine Consciousness and the internal Divine Spark, in everyone, as well as in nature.”
Source: The Magdalene Lineage: Past Life Journeys Into the Sacred Feminine Mysteries
“It is interesting to transport one's self back to the times when Astronomy began; to observe how discoveries were connected together, how errors have got mixed up with truth, have delayed the knowledge of it, and retarded its progress; and, after having followed the various epochs and traversed every climate, finally to contemplate the edifice founded on the labours of successive centuries and of various nations.”
“It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.”
Source: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
“It is interesting to work in Las Vegas. I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture, it's a town of entertainment.”
“It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.”
“It is intolerable that around 1 in 5 of the world's adults are illiterate. How can we build equitable information societies or thriving democracies if so many remain without the basic tools of literacy?”
“It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.”
“It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.”
“It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!”
“It is invaluable to find people who can show you how to walk through an open door. Have gratitude.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“It is invaluable to have a friend who shares your interests and helps you stay motivated.”
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more
“It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.”
Source: The applied theory of money
“It is invidious to distinguish particular men as adventurers: we are all such.”
Source: Summaries of Thought
“It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.”
Source: Tynan on theatre
“It is ironic and indeed counterintuitive that our own human nature has a huge potential to drive us towards physical and cognitive enhancements that may completely alter the characteristics of our species.”
“It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.”
Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“It is ironic how those so hungry for an honest opinion are so quickly offended by that honesty. If you are not ready to hear the bad with the good, do not ask.”
“It is ironic-rouse the limpest adjective-that a government as spontaneously tyrannous and callous as ours should, over the years, have come yo care so much about our health as it endlessly tests and retests commercial drugs available in other lands while arresting those who take "hard" drugs on the potential ground that they are bad for the user's health. One is touched by their concern- touched and dubious. After all, these same compassionate guardians of our well-being have sternly, year in and year out, refused to allow us to have what every other First World country simply takes for granted, a national health service.”
Source: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
“It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.”