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  • Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Aristotle Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ronald Reagan Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • William S. Burroughs Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Joseph Addison Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Jane Goodsell It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
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  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Aeschylus It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anatole France It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • St. John of the Cross It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • George Eliot It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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