Quotes with -they

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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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  • Sylvia Plath I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Martin Luther I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
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  • William Golding I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Anne Sullivan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Henry James I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Queen Victoria I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Benito Mussolini I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
    As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • E. B. White I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Daisy Ashford I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Italo Calvino I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Anita Roddick I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Graham Swift I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
    The Temple of Death
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ace Frehley I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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