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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.


Isaac Babel

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ISAAC D'ISRAELI Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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ISAAC TAYLOR Young fellows will be young fellows.
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.
ISAAC BARROW I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
ISAAC WATTS The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
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ISAAC WATTS Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, a...
ISAAC WATTS In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
ISAAC WILLIAMS Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
ISAAC BICKERSTAFF If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.
ISAAC MOPHATLANE Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
ISAAC ASIMOV What goes up must come down.
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ISAAC MARION Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...
ISAAC ASIMOV If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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ISAAC MARION Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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ISAAC ROSENFELD Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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ISAAC ASIMOV I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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ISAAC ASIMOV Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning...
ISAAC ASIMOV How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every...
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ISAAC ASIMOV It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
ISAAC DISRAELI Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
ISAAC ASIMOV Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
ISAAC GOLDBERG The first law of dietetics seems to be if it tastes good, its bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOV It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No...
ISAAC ASIMOV When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what wo...
ISAAC ASIMOV If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t...
ISAAC ASIMOV We can make inspired guesses, but we don
ISAAC ASIMOV There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
ISAAC DISRAELI The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
ISAAC DISRAELI Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smooth...
ISAAC ASIMOV I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.
ISAAC ASIMOV It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
ISAAC ASIMOV