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  • Charles Dickens It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Aeschylus It is always in season for old men to learn.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Maxwell Maltz It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Arthur Henderson It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Mark Twain It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • William Cobbett It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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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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  • Plato It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Mark Twain It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • William M. Evarts It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
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  • Petronius It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
    Petronius
    Roman writer (27 - 66)
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  • Billy Collins It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.
    Interview with Kritya: In the Name of Poetry
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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