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  • Ben Kingsley There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • M. Rukeyser There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist.
    M. Rukeyser
     
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  • Jorge Luis Borges There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Charles F. Kettering There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Caitlin Thomas There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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  • Beverly Sills There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Seneca There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Gordon There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
    George Gordon
     
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
    Source: The Sabbath (1951) p. 3
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Roy Lichtenstein There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Miró and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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  • Arthur Middleton There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Pearl Bailey There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you - if you don't repeat it.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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