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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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  • Thomas Jefferson It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Camille Paglia It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Margaret Fuller It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Adam Smith It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry Fielding It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Audre Lorde It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 44
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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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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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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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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