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  • Robert Fulghum I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Mae West I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Martin Luther King I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • E. M. Forster I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Albert Schweitzer I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Don Johnson I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
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  • Barbara Walters 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.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • William Somerset Maugham I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barack Obama 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
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn 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.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Buddy Rich I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • A. J. Liebling I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Armistead Maupin 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.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith 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.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Tennessee Williams I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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