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It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
-- La Rochefoucauld...
It is strangely in keeping with the manner of our courtship that the maid of honour should be a man.
Oh! Thank you very much, my lord. ...And I use the word 'man' in its broadest possible sense. ...
It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers.
They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies....
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. -- Robert Bly
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. -- Galileo Galilei
It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.
It is tempting to take the easy political path ... to get peace at any price now, even though I know that a peace of humiliation for the United States would lead to a bigger war or surrender later.
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It is Texas law that when two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone.
In one of those "true facts" books the...
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
-- Alfred North Whitehead...
It is the cigarette that smokes, humans are just suckers on the end.

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