Quotes with five-and-a-half

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  • Arnold Schoenberg I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
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  • Alberto Giacometti I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Robert Burns I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • William Cowper I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Anne Stevenson I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Burgess Owens I played on the Jets during Namath's last four years, and we used to ask ourselves, 'When is it going to happen? When are they finally going to replace him?' We'd wait for it, week by week, but it never happened.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Adam Jones I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • A. J. McLean I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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  • Ralph B. Perry I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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  • Arthur Keith I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benazir Bhutto I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
    At the rally in Rawalpindi after which she was assassinated. (27 December 2007)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Al Neuharth I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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