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  • Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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  • Horace I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • James Joyce I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Voltaire I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adam Sandler I shouldn't be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Leo Tolstoy I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Aleister Crowley I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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