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It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. – Thomas Jefferson
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. – Charles Horton Cooley
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. – Miguel de Cervantes
It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is pleasant at times to play the madman. – Seneca
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. – Henry David Thoreau
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. – Martin Luther
It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not. – Mark Rutherford
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune... – Samuel Smiles
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. – Samuel Smiles
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. – Thomas B. Macaulay
It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. – Aristotle
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. – Wilbur Wright
It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible. – Herbert Welch
It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure. – Lee Segall
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. – Alec Bourne
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. – Professor Edsger Dijkstra
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard
It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. – Henry Steele Commager
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. – Giordano Bruno
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. – Seneca
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. – Seneca

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