Quotes with even-tempered

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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bhagavad Gita It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ezra Pound It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself; she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often seem to let them flap.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • George S. Patton It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Cardinal de Retz It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
    Cardinal de Retz
    French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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  • Alva Myrdal It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a 'remedy', more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Mary Stewart It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Ben Stein It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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