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  • Charlotte Brontë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Plutarch It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bill Flores It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Condon It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Amelia Barr It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Hannah Arendt It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Dennis Potter It is nearly an axiom that people will not be better than the books they read.
    Dennis Potter
    English playwright (1935 - 1994)
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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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  • Bernard of Clairvaux It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Kingsley Amis It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Susan Sontag It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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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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  • Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • René Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Anthony Collins It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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