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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bill Bryson It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
    Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Brontë It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Robert Gissing It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bell Hooks It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Keith It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • H.G. Wells It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, ''You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.''
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Angela Carter It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Johnson It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buzz Aldrin It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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