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  • Thomas Jefferson It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ben Okri It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Franz Kafka It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • James Baldwin It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Abigail Adams It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.
    Letter to John Thaxter, 15 February 1778
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Barry Commoner It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Bill Owens It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Yann Martel It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    Het leven van Pi p.36
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Kahlil Gibran It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bob Harper It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Paul Goodman It rarely adds anything to say, ''In my opinion'' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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