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  • C. S. Lewis It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Epicurus It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Aesop It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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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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  • 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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  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jean Rostand It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Sophocles It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Junius It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.
    Junius
    pseudonym of a writer of letters to the Public Advertiser
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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