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  • Washington Irving There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Brander Matthews There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Thornton Wilder There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Louise Erdrich There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
    Source:  (2012)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bubba Watson There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Adrian Edmondson There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Jefferson There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Seneca There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
    Alison Lurie
     
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Pearl Bailey There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
    George Gordon
     
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  • Barbara Stanwyck There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
    Barbara Stanwyck
    American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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