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It is incumbent on us to avoid archaisms.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Training of Childre...
It is indeed a great idea to work your way through college with a job, and it is even better if the job is still there when you graduate.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life.
The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders....
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
-- Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Note...
It is in his own interest that a cat purrs.
It is in the shelter of each other that people live. -- Irish proverb
It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
-- George Bernard Shaw...
It is mandatory for a motorist with criminal intentions to stop at the city limits and telephone the chief of police as he is entering the town.
-- A law to reduce crime states -- real standing law...
It is Maya! Dost thou not know her? Illusion -- dreams -- phantoms.
But, to the wise, Maya is more. ------------------ But, to the wise, Maya is more....

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