Quotes 161 till 180 of 416.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Colin Wilson - New Pathways in Psychology -
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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I would not fear nor wish my fate,
But boldly say each night,
To-morrow let my sun his beams display,
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859 -
If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
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If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective p. 431 -
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
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