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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Camille Paglia It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Anson Jones It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
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  • Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Doris Lessing It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Og Mandino It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Bruce Sutter It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Seneca It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Emmet Fox It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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