Quotes 4761 till 4780 of 11267.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IX -
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
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It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954). -
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
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