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  • Abraham Lincoln I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alfred Nobel I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Agnes Smedley I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Brock Lesnar I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Buddy Wakefield I keep forgetting to put focus on my to-do list. I keep forgetting to wander and have fun. I know I'm transparent but my insecurities are in all the right places, so go ahead, have a look.
    Poetry Gahndis Autobiography
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bruce Oldfield I keep on working when other people are out having fun. But I love what I do and find it hard to stop.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Abraham Pais I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Rosa Parks I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Warren Mitchell I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my ''spaceship'' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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  • Augusten Burroughs I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Andy Hertzfeld I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégoût given by satiety.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • George Robert Gissing I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Mother Teresa I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • Philip Roth I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Andrew Wiles I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Singer I know it's hard to blame the time, but there's a bit of an expectation for a summer movie. I think that 'Superman Returns' was a bit nostalgic and romantic, and I don't think that was what people were expecting, especially in the summer.
    Bryan Singer
    American director, producer and writer (1965 - )
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