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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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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
    Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler It is not truth that matters, but victory.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Tony Robbins It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bobby Jones It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
    Bobby Jones
    American golfer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lord George Byron It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Walter Bagehot It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benazir Bhutto It is one thing being able to contest an election and to give the people hope that I can be the next prime minister. It is a totally different situation where the people of Pakistan are told that the results are already taken and the leader of your choice is banned.
    As quoted in I never asked for power in The Guardian (15 August 2002)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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