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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Anthony Collins I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
    Anthony Collins
    English philosopher (1676 - 1729)
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  • Adam Brody I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Frantz Fanon I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
    Frantz Fanon
    French psychiatrist, Algerian freedom fighter and writer (1925 - 1961)
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Shakespeare I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • T. S. Eliot I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • David Gemmell I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.
    Legend (2011)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Ann Beattie I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bryan Robson I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Agatha Christie I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
    A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Anne Sullivan I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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