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  • Henry Ward Beecher I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • William Shakespeare I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Judy Garland I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anne Tyler I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • James Watt I can think of nothing but this engine.
    Letter to Matthew Boulton 29 april 1765.
    James Watt
    Scottish engineer (1736 - 1819)
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ace Frehley I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I can't even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it's so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It's very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven't been to paradise if you haven't been to Hawaii.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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