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  • Samuel Butler I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton 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.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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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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  • 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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  • Sebastian Faulks I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week, a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Catton I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • John McEnroe I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
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  • Arthur Miller I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Roland Barthes I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Anne McCaffrey I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Antonia Fraser I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • John McGahern I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Huey Newton I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alexander Pope I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Adam Sandler I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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