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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • André Gide It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Atom Egoyan It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • William Blake It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Morley It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.
    On Compromise p. 58
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
    Baha'u'llah
    Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817 - 1892)
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  • Alan Cumming It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
    Alan Cumming
    Scottish-American actor, comedian, singer, and activist (1965 - )
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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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  • Italo Calvino It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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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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