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  • Archer J. P. Martin If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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  • William Somerset Maugham If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William E. Gladstone If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Bill Gates If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
    Source: Bill Gates Speaks: Insight from the Worlds Greatest Entrepreneur
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Mark Twain If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Shorten If I am elected leader, my shadow opposition team will actively incorporate the policy contributions of all our members by instituting policy action committees as recommend by the 2010 National Review.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Boris Becker If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • William Faulkner If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Garth Brooks If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
    Garth Brooks
     
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  • William Hazlitt If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Asne Seierstad If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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  • Bruce Cockburn If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anne Tyler If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ann Landers If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Bryce Courtenay If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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