Quotes with break-through

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  • Lewis Thomas It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Joseph Conrad It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Gore Vidal It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Kehlog Albran It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
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  • Betty Friedan It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Hepworth It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cecil B. DeMille It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
    Cecil B. DeMille
    American filmmaker (1881 - 1959)
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  • Graham Greene It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Ansel Adams It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bill Flores It is my plan to lead the RSC as a member-driven organization which puts forth positions developed through member participation and dialogue consistent with the RSC's mission and the U.S. Constitution.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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