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  • Winston Churchill It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brad Henry It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Bob Nelson It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
    Bob Nelson
    American comedian and actor (1958 - )
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • Aesop It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • George Washington It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
    Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (1823) XXXIII
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 32
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Angela Carter It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Georges Clemenceau It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Ruskin It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William Ellery Channing It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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