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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Carl Levin It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Simone Weil It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Lao-Tzu It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Alfred Jodl It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • John Frederick Boyes It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Arnold Bennett It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Pablo Picasso It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Simone Weil It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Barbara Ward Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Thomas Fuller Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Denis Diderot Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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