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It Is What It Is Quotes (page 48)

Moliere quote: "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for..."
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. Moliere
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on... Terry Eagleton
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating. Milan Kundera
Oscar Wilde quote: "It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one..."
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. Oscar Wilde
Neal Stephenson quote: "What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's..."
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. Neal Stephenson
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings. Ann Landers
What's madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have. Theodore Roethke
It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown? George R. R. Martin
What say you, Luxa?" said Vikus."What can I say, Vikus? Can I return to our people and tell them I withdrew from the quest when our survival hangs in the balance?" said Luxa bitterly."Of course you cannot, Luxa. This is why he times it so," said Henry."You could choose to - " started Vikus."I could choose! I could choose!" retorted Luxa. " Do not offer me a choice when you know none exits!" She and Henry turned their backs on Vikus. Suzanne Collins
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next. John Cage
J. K. Rowling quote: "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. J. K. Rowling
It's my job to see it."It's your gift," she corrected. "Your family must be proud of you." She spoke casually, began to eat again, then stared at him, baffled, when he laughed. "Why is that funny?"Pride wouldn't exactly be part of their general outlook to my way of thinking."Why?"People can't find pride in what they don't understand. Not all families, Keeley, are as cozy as yours. Nora Roberts
Hippocrates quote: "It is far more important to know what person the disease has..."
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates
It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us. Carl Sagan
What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. Sylvia Plath

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