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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • William Butler Yeats 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.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 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.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Lord George Byron I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martin Luther King I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Lord George Byron I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Busy Philipps I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have great respect for the #semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Albert Einstein I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Baruch Spinoza I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
    Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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