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  • Ezra Pound 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • John Selden 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • J. Seldon 'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Robert Browning 'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Euripides 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Carine Roitfeld 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy ... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Abdul Kalam ... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...empires and civilizations do not collapse because of deficiencies on the military or the political levels.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...human beings have religious needs. They have a need for a feeling of certitude in their minds about things they cannot control and they do not fully understand, and with humility, they admit they do not understand...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...they give us vicarious satisfactions for many of our frustrations....People need exercise; they do not need to watch other people exercise... Another vicarious satisfaction is sexy magazines; this is vicarious sex. To anyone rushing to buy one, I'd like to say, The real thing is better.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...we no longer have intellectually satisfying arrangements in our educational system, in our arts, humanities or anything else; instead we have slogans and ideologies. An ideology is a religious or emotional expression; it is not an intellectual expression.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • George Gurdjieff A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • George D. Prentice A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Caine A barrier is of ideas, not of things.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Ferdinand Foch A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
    Ferdinand Foch
    French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland (1851 - 1929)
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  • Bobby Bowden A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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