Quotes with --because

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  • William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anatole France It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bob Odenkirk It is so weird to be on this side of that, because when you're starting out, and it seems like you're starting out for so long, you look up to the people who have made their mark. And you sort of want to be that.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Sydney Smith It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Barbara Castle It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Allen Ginsberg It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • John Galsworthy It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.
    Source: A Bit O' Love (1915)
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Adrian Edmondson It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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