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  • David Hume It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Hilaire Belloc It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
    Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Junius It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Bram Stoker 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?
    Source: Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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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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  • Edmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Sallust It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Susan Sontag It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Epictetus It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • David Copperfield It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Cato the Elder It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Vince Lombardi It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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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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