Quotes with not-self

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  • Mark Twain It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Pythagoras It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Freeman Dyson It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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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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  • Barry Gibb It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • James Baldwin It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Juvenal It is difficult not to write satire.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Upton Sinclair It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
    Upton Sinclair
    American writer (1878 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Barr It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Thomas Szasz It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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