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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Jean Rostand It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Morley It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.
    On Compromise p. 58
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • René Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hubert Humphrey It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Anthony Collins It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Gore Vidal It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is not every question that deserves an answer.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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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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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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