I Quotes
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“It is lucky to be the pick of the bunch”
“It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,” he wrote. “There are specific identifiers that are entirely recognizable during the bubble’s inflation. One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud…. The FBI reports mortgage-related fraud is up fivefold since 2000.” Bad behavior was no longer on the fringes of an otherwise sound economy; it was its central feature.”
Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
“It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.”
“It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.”
“It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.”
“It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.”
Source: Heretics
“It is ludicrous why we human beings try so hard to conceal our tear. We fail to fathom that the more we camouflage our tears, the more we escalate the burden of grief in our heart. It is simple and wise to let the burden of grief metamorphose into tears and flow from our eyes.”
“It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.”
“It is mad,’ was the reply.
Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clearly a very big problem.”
Source: Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
“It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.”
Source: The Novum Organum Scientiarum: In Two Parts
“It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.”
“It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.”
Source: The Lost Sisterhood
“It is madness, by the way, that every director does not do whatever it takes—financially, spiritually, erotically—to put Nicolas Cage in everything they make. He is the only person who ever does anything interesting in any movie. Yeah, I said it! Do I mean it? I don’t know. But I do know that sometimes I forget about Nicolas Cage for weeks or even years at a time, and then I watch a Nicolas Cage movie again and it feels like coming home—to a house where your dad is cocaine and your mom licks your face if you’ve been good AND if you’ve been bad. I’m happy there!”
Source: Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
“It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.”
“It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.”
“It is madness that certain men have preoccupied their minds with measuring the world and have dared to publish their results.”
Source: Natural History: A Selection
“It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.”
“It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God may wake someday and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to where we can never return.”
Source: The Abundance
“It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head
“It is magnificent, but it is not war.”
“It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric--must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while it is true that the more they assert themselves the more they govern, it is also true that the more they assert themselves the more opportunities they offer for being successfully denied.”
Source: Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts and Pushers
“It is mainly the soluble fiber and magnesium that lowered the author's fasting pre-diabetes blood glucose to 90s and 100s without taking medication”
Source: Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol
“It is mainly the soluble fiber in the common natural foods that lower cholesterol”
Source: Essential Guide to Treat Diabetes and to Lower Cholesterol
“It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.”
“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.”
Source: Candide
“It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.”
“It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.”
“It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude.”
“It is man who kills, man who creates or suffers injustice; it is no longer man who, having lost all restraint, shares his bed with a corpse. Whoever waits for his neighbor to die in order to take his piece of bread is, albeit guiltless, further from the model of
thinking man than the most primitive pigmy or the most vicious sadist".”
Source: If This Is a Man / The Truce
“It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.”
Source: Unity Is Peace: Interfaith Speech
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
Source: William Shakespeare
“It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.”
“It is man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.”
Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“It is man's foremost duty to awaken the understanding of the inner self and to know his own real inner greatness. Once he knows his true worth, he can know the worth of others.”
“It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.”
“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”
“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.”
“It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.”
Source: To Be Human
“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”
Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“It is man's vision of a world fit for rational, civilized humanity which leads him to dare and to suffer to build societies free from want and fear. Concepts such as truth, justice and compassion cannot be dismissed as trite when these are often the only bulwarks which stand against ruthless power.”
Source: Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings
“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.”
“It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“It is manifest that some remedy for sin was needed. We see this need, not in scripture only, but in fact; in the well-attested & daily witnessed uncontroveted fact, that 'all have sinned & come short of the glory of God' -- David King, The Lord's Supper”
“It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.”
Source: An Essay on the Trial by Jury
“It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.”
Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives
“It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.”
“It is manifestly idiotic to believe that Israel, with five million Jewish citizens and one million Arab citizens, will concede to the return of four million refugees. It will not happen. We can wish it, we can think it's just, that it's moral - it will not happen. No country commits suicide.”