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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Allen Tate I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • William Walsh I can endure my own despair,
    but not another's hope.
    Gedicht: Rivals
    William Walsh
    English poet (1662 - 1708)
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  • W. Walsh I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alfred Day Hershey I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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  • Aldous Huxley I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Forsyth I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Toni Morrison I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Armistead Maupin I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Audre Lorde I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Billie Holiday I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Philip Roth I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Martin Luther I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
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  • Henry Ford I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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