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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198 -
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.
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I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ISBN: 9780198184966 The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007 edition), Oxfor -
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
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