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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) -
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters -
I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
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I had a great run with WWE. WWE gave me great visibility. I met my wife there, and I got paid a lot of money; it was just my time to go. I sensed it. I was smart enough to leave. That's the bottom line.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
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