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  • David Hume It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bo Bennett It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Susan Sontag It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
    The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • George Macdonald It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Boris Sidis It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Branch Rickey It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Brian Friel It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Seneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Sir Edmund Hillary It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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  • Aeschylus It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Quentin Crisp It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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