Quotes with life-and-death

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  • Adam Grant I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bryan Magee I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.
    Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)
    Bryan Magee
    British philosopher, broadcaster, politician (1930 - 2019)
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  • A. Philip Randolph I have waited twenty-two years for this... I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Themistocles I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
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  • Joseph Conrad I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Sydney Smith I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Angela Carter I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Josh Billings I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Armistead Maupin I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Allan Carr I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't believe I'm on the telly. I'm so lazy.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • George W. Bush I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
    The Telegraph, 15 september 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Walt Whitman I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Jean Baudrillard I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Andrew Johnson I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson I hold it true, whatever befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost
    Than never to have loved at all.
    In Memoriam A. H. H.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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