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It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 8, 30, (953.)...
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.
-- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Religio Medici, Part ii, Sect. ii...
It is the creationists who blasphemously are claiming that God is cheating us in a stupid way.
-- J. W. Nienhuy...
It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence of content.
It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce itself in the obviousness of value....
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley...
It is the dead wood that holds up the tree. -- Young's Second Law Just because it is still standing, doesn't mean it is not dead.
-- Corollary...
It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Phormio, Act ii, Sc.
1, 11, (241.)...
It is the elected official's duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction to theirs -- and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
But his unbiased opini...

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