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• Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  Igor Stravinsky
  Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  A. R. Ammons
  American poet (1926 - 2001)
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• Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

  Vikram Seth
  Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet (1792 - 1822)
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• Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

  Christopher Marlowe
  British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

  Thomas Traherne
  British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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• Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

  Bob Diamond
  Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

  Stephen Vizinczey
  Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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• Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

  Bruce McCulloch
  Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
  

  Pride & Prejudice Vol 2, ch. 2

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

  Karen Horney
  German-American psychoanalyst (1885 - 1952)
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• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

  Quentin Crisp
  English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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• Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

  Angela Carter
  British author (1940 - 1992)
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• Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

  Beau Willimon
  American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• overcompensation
• self-interest
• institution
• achievement
• assignation
• tremendous

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