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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Arnold Bennett It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Barack Obama It is easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward; to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.
    Speech Cairo, 04-06-2009
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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  • Gertrude Stein It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bill Hader It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ernest Hemingway It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • J. C. Macaulay It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • St. Teresa of Avila It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Benjamin Haydon It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also His infinite justice.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Samuel Butler It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it, just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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