Quotes with not-too-distant

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  • Seneca It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barney Frank It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • W. M. Thackeray It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • André Gide It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Buddha It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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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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  • Virginia Woolf It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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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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