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  • Henry Ward Beecher I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Joseph Conrad I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Ogden Nash I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Umberto Eco I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Jonathan Franzen I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
    De correcties (2010)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Al Yankovic I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Aaron Spelling I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Orson Welles I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Jacques Maritain I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Ace Frehley I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Prince Philip I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Bruno Mars I don't think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it's something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems - members come and go - and some of the world's biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Alan Cranston I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Barack Obama I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
    in 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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