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  • Angela Merkel I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Aulus Gellius I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
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  • Oscar Wilde I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Anthony Wayne I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Martin Luther I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
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  • Ian Fleming I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Horace I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Dorothy Parker I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Wayne Gretzky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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