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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Washington It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
    Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Donna Tartt It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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  • William Hazlitt It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
    About Israel Comment in connection with the annual Europride, i
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Seneca It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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