Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Epictetus It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • John Ruskin It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Marie Dressler It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • Jean Cocteau It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Anaxagoras It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • Ben Okri It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • George Edward Woodberry It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Archibald Macleish It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bob Barr It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Voltaire It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Voltaire It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Camille Paglia It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Milton It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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