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  • William James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Seneca It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Terry Eagleton It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton
    British literary theorist and critic (1943 - )
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  • Jean Paul It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Don DeLillo It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
    Americana (1989)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Erickson It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Joyce Cary It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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