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  • Christopher Lasch It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is delivery that makes the orators success.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Marcia Wieder It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Confucius It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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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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  • William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Mark Twain It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • William Hazlitt It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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