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  • Anatole France It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • George Eliot It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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  • William Cobbett It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Joseph Addison It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Fred A. Allen It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Seneca It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aristotle It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Nelson Mandela It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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