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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Coville I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Phil McGraw I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
    Phil McGraw
    American television personality and author (1950 - )
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  • Steve Martin I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
    Steve Martin
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Boyd I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • Anne Perry I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Ann Beattie I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Angela Carter I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Angela Davis I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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