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  • Carine Roitfeld If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Charles III If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bill Shankly If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Simone Weil If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Francis Schaeffer If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
    Francis Schaeffer
    American theologian and philosopher (1912 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Butler If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bria Skonberg If Harry Connick Jr. wants to call me and ask me to join his band, that would be fine with me. I'm happy, but if he calls, I would pick up.
    Bria Skonberg
    Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1983 - )
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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Cale Yarborough If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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  • Lou Holtz If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Rosa Parks If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Enoch Powell If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barry Mann If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Brody Jenner If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Belle Boyd If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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