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  • Blaise Pascal It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Peter de Vries It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Carl Linnaeus It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carolyn Wells It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Edmund Burke It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • May Sarton It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • William Shakespeare It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alfred E. Smith It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Jim Rohn It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • William Dean Howells It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • David Copperfield It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
    David Copperfield
    American magician (1956 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Boris Sidis It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
    Leviathan (1651) XVIII
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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