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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ovid It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bede Griffiths It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • George F. Will It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Albert Camus It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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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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