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  • Michael Cunningham There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
    Michael Cunningham
    American novelist and screenwriter (1952 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • L. Ron Hubbard There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Stokely Carmichael There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Brander Matthews There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
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  • Jane Jacobs There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
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  • Benjamin Jowett There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
    Attributed. Also attributed to Anita Loos.
    Benjamin Jowett
    British theologian (1817 - 1893)
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  • Alfred Einstein There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
    Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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  • Ben Carson There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is far more danger of harm than there is hope of good in any radical changes.
    Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (5 July 1926)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
    Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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