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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

– George SteinerRate it:

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

– George SteinerRate it:

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

– Seneca the YoungerRate it:

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

– Sir Edmund HillaryRate it:

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

– Sir Edmund HillaryRate it:

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

– AeschylusRate it:

It is not the parents who should be blamed for their children's bad behaviour, but the government and the environment that continue to betray its citizens and produce poverty in the country.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

It is not the position, but the disposition.

– J. E. DingerRate it:

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

– HoraceRate it:

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

– Frederick W. RobertsonRate it:

It is not the size of a flower, but the size of its beauty.

– Matshona DhliwayoRate it:

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love.

– Matshona DhliwayoRate it:

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

– Charles DarwinRate it:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change.

– Charles Robert DarwinRate it:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

– Charles DarwinRate it:

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

– Charles DarwinRate it:

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

– Baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuRate it:

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

– Julius CaesarRate it:

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.

– Richard Milhous NixonRate it:

It is not tragic to die doing something you love.

– Mark FooRate it:

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

– Joseph SchumpeterRate it:

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence.

– Marquis de VauvenarguesRate it:

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over.

– Edna St. Vincent MillayRate it:

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

– W. Somerset MaughamRate it:

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