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  • Epictetus It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Shirley Chisholm It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.
    Shirley Chisholm
    American politician, educator, and author (1924 - 2005)
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  • John Ruskin It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Confucius It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Arthur Wellesley It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Charles Darwin It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Bobby Jones It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
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    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Joseph De Maistre It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Adler It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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