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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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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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  • Yann Martel It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    Het leven van Pi p.36
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Albert J. Nock It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Lord George Byron It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alice Miller It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Bobby Flay It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne It is we that are blind, not fortune.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Barkhad Abdi It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Anatole France It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Hazlitt It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Kahlil Gibran It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Antoine Rivarol It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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