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  • Lord George Byron I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Orwell I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • George Orwell I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Hawking I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Betty Field I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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  • Marilyn Monroe I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
    Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Maya Angelou I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Brooke Shields I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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