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  • William G. McAdoo It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • John Wagstaff It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.
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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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  • Seneca It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Luigi Pirandello It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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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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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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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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  • Robert Southey It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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