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“It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”

“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

“It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.”

“It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.”

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”

“It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.”

“It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.”

“It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.”

“It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.”

“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.”

“It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.”

“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”

“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”

“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”

“It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.”

“It is natural to die as to be born.”

“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.”

“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.”

“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.”

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”

“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.”

“It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.”

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.”

“It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don’t think it’s possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.”

“It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you’re not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it’s actually space that’s moving.”

“It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.”

“It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.”

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”

“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

“It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.”

“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.”

“It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.”

“It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.”

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”

“It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”

“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.”

“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”

“It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.”

“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”

“It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

“It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.”

“It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.”

“It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That’s why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.”

“It is sad that the more ‘successful’ a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.”

“It is funny to me that because I can run, because I’m athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.”

“It is always better to be slightly underdressed.”

“It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it’s great to be alive!”

“It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.”

“It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.”

“It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.”

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age.”

“It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.”

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”

“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”

“It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”

“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.”

“It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.”

“It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.”

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”

“It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.”

“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”

“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?”

“It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.”

“It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.”

“It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.”

“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”

“It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.”

“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”

“It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.”

“It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.”

“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.”

“It is my last wish to be burried sitting up.”

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.”

“It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”

“It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.”

“It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues.”

“It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.”

“It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.”

“It is easier to be critical than correct.”

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”

“It is no wonder that advocates of Obamacare blindly push forward with their agenda to force religious Americans to violate their own precepts: in the war between the state and the individual, religion is on the side of the individual and his or her relationship with God. That is why symbolic prayer matters. It is symbolic.”

“It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).”