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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Benjamin Graham It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. X, Commodity Unit Stabilization, p. 109
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • James Allen It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Augustus Hare It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Ban Ki-moon It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Bryson It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anna Held It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • William Booth It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Carl Sagan It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
    Cosmos (1980) 98
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Arthur Machen It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Mick Jagger It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
    Mick Jagger
    English singer-songwriter, composer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Richard Armour It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
    Richard Armour
    American poet and author (1906 - 1989)
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  • Winston Churchill It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Campbell Newman It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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