Quotes with not-so-great

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  • William Hazlitt It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    Source: The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Publilius Syrus It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • John Ruskin It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Billy Collins It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.
    Source: Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Ajay Naidu It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Woody Allen It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean Francois Regnard It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Aesop It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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