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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Jonas Edward Salk It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
    Jonas Edward Salk
    American medical researcher and virologist (1914 - 1995)
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  • David Hume It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Thomas Troward It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard It is an honor for me to take part in Canon's Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Voltaire It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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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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  • Ben Jonson It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Barney Frank It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Robert Browning It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Betty Friedan It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Anne Brontë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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