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  • Lord George Byron I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Henry James I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • John Keats I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lord Chesterfield I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Alvin Adams I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Omar N. Bradley I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Audre Lorde I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Martha Washington I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
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  • Bruno Tonioli I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • John W. Gardner I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Queen Victoria I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Hermann Hesse I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Walt Whitman I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming I am forever learning and changing.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Arne Jacobsen I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Morgan Freeman I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
    Morgan Freeman
    American actor, producer and narrator (1937 - )
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